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Nilotic Lakes of the Western Rift
Monographiae Biologicae, 2009 The nilotic lakes associated with the Western Rift are separated from the more southerly lakes Kivu and Tanganyika by the Virunga volcanoes. They include three small lakes in the Kigezi highlands, and three large lakes, George, Edward and Albert in the valley.
Jim Green
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Layers of number inflection in Mabaan (Western Nilotic)
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2006 In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there are several singular and plural number suffixes. However, many singular nouns have no segmentally distinct suffix, but have a root-final nasal which corresponds to a root-final homorganic plosive in the plural.
Torben Andersen
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Vowel quality alternation in Mabaan and its Western Nilotic history
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1999 Mabaan differs from other Western Nilotic languages by not using anything like the feature [ATR] or [breathy] in the overall organisation of its vowel system. On the other hand, however, Mabaan is similar to many other Western Nilotic languages in using vowel alternation in the derivational morphology of verbal roots.
Torben Andersen
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A binary inflectional voice contrast in Mabaan (Western Nilotic)
Studies in Language, 2023 Abstract In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there is a binary inflectional voice contrast in the morphology of verbs. In addition to a morphologically unmarked basic voice, there is a fully productive applicative voice, which is morphologically marked.
Andersen, Torben, Torben Andersen
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The Obligation Modality in Western Nilotic Languages
Typological Studies in Language, 1995 Edith L. Bavin
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Voice-Quality Harmony in Western Nilotic Languages
Studies in Language Companion Series, 1980 Leon C. Jacobson
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Some remarkable features of Regariik (Northern Burun, Western Nilotic)
, 2022 Regariik is in some respects remarkably different from other languages in the Burun branch of Western Nilotic. In monosyllabic content words there is no surface contrast between short and long vowels. Tones are the opposite of those of other Northern Burun languages. A category of gender exists in the pronominal systems.
Andersen, Torben
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How Long do Linguistic Areas Last? Western Nilotic Grammars in Contact1
2007Abstract Investigations into the realms and limitations of linguistic areas may take on diffierent forms. The most obvious one, perhaps, would be to dene a geographic area or region which is characterized by the occurrence of similar grammatical techniques and common typological patterns in a number of otherwise probably unrelated ...
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The encoding of subjects and objects in Jumjum, a Nilotic OV language
Lingua, 2018 This article shows that in Jumjum, a little-described language belonging to the Southern Burun subbranch of Western Nilotic, subjects and objects are obligatorily cross-referenced in the verb. Only definite patients are coded as objects, while indefinite
Torben Andersen
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