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Pharyngealization and the Vowel System of Tasawaq (Northern Songhay)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2012 In this article, it is argued that Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language in Niger, has two different dialects. One dialect has pharyngealized consonants as phonemes, while the other dialect lacks them, but has a binary opposition between /a/ and /æ/.
Maarten Kossmann
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African Bibliophiles: Books and Libraries in Medieval Timbuktu [PDF]
, 2004 The West African city of Timbuktu flourished as a center for Islamic scholarship from the 14th through the 16th century. The social structure of the city was based on wealth, with further stratification by degree of literacy, and expertise in ...
Singleton, Brent D.
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Estratégias de sobrevivência Songhay-Zarma (Níger): trajectórias económicas de uma outra modernidade
e-cadernos ces, 2011 Este ensaio procura resgatar a importância das estratégias de sobrevivência das sociedades rurais Songhay-Zarma na actual configuração da economia nigerina.
Paula Morgado
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Gathering: a survival occupation in arid zones in Mali [PDF]
, 1995 Dans les régions sahariennes et sahéliennes, les récentes sécheresses ont creusé davantage le déficit chronique en céréales, aliments de base indispensables à la survie des populations.
Diarra, A.
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Speech is My Hammer, It\u27s Time to Build: Hip Hop, Cultural Semiosis and the Africana Intellectual Heritage [PDF]
, 2014 The article examines Hip Hop music\u27s relationship with African cultural symbolism and the discipline of Africana Studies. The author maintains that Africana Studies must reclaim the study of cultural semiosis, which may be used to contextualize Hip ...
Livingston, Samuel T.
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'Stalking the stalker': a Chwezi initiation into spirit possession and experiential structure [PDF]
, 2006 Among Sukuma (Tanzania) the Chwezi spirit society operates in the shadow of, and in tension with, the lineage cults domesticating the dead. As this ethnography describes, Chwezi candidates are initiated into spirit possession by 'stalking the stalker ...
Stroeken, Koenraad
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Le maraîchage : révélateur du dynamisme des campagnes sahélo-soudaniennes
Belgeo, 2007 By appearing at the end of the small-irrigation development programs wich were initiated at the beginning of the 80s by the governments of Niger and Ivory Coast, the expansion of market gardening in the Songhay and Senufo areas seems to have been ...
Stéphane Bastin, Audrey Fromageot
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Northern Mali: the things we assume [PDF]
, 2012 Events have developed quickly these last days and weeks in Mali, as fast as an all terrain vehicle can drive in the sand, basically. And although electronic media can go faster than four wheel drives, they can only go as fast as the rumours they feed on.
Lecocq, Baz
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, 2010 West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support.
Souag, Lameen
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