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Multiple mitogenomes indicate Things Fall Apart with Out of Africa or Asia hypotheses for the phylogeographic evolution of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Previous morpho-molecular studies of evolutionary relationships within the economically important genus of honey bees (Apis), including the Western Honey Bee (A. mellifera L.), have suggested Out of Africa or Asia origins and subsequent spread to Europe.
Steven M. Carr
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Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non ...
Torben Andersen
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Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the
Washington Onyango-Ouma +1 more
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka
Afrika und Übersee, 2023 Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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Investigating the voice quality dimension in Western Nilotic vowel harmony [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1984 It has been suggested at least since 1936 (Tucker, 2nd International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Cambridge) that the vowel harmony system in Western Nilotic languages includes a dimension of voice quality contrast. X-ray studies of Dho-Luo and Ateso have shown that there are generally differences in the superalaryngeal regions (e.g., in tongue ...
I. Maddieson
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Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2019 The communities’ in Nyanza and Western Kenya situated to the east of Lake Victoria have come from various directions to their present day settlements. They encompass two linguistic families the Bantu and the Nilotic. These communities came from different
Mildred A.J. Ndeda
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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations.
Steven T Goldstein +16 more
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Molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp. among slaughtered cattle and associated risk factors in the Bahr El Ghazal region of South Sudan [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchIntroduction Leptospirosis is a neglected emerging and zoonotic disease reported worldwide. This study sought to determine the molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp.
David Onafruo +12 more
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Kronos, 2017 The decolonial departure point of this article is that every human being is born into a valid and legitimate knowledge system. This means that African people had their own valid and legitimate indigenous systems of education prior to colonisation ...
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
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