The Bantu Languages Of Western Equatorial Africa

Author : Malcolm Guthrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351600088

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The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa by Malcolm Guthrie Pdf

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.

Author : Malcolm Guthrie
Publisher : London, Oxford U.P
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : 0835732215

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The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa by Malcolm Guthrie Pdf

Author : M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351599672

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The Bantu Languages of Africa by M. A. Bryan Pdf

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.

Author : A. N. Tucker,M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351600385

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The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa by A. N. Tucker,M. A. Bryan Pdf

Originally published in 1956, this volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in the area extending south of the Sahara from Lake Chad to the Indian Ocean, together withj those of South Africa. The arrangement is primarily linguistic, in as much as larger units which show some indisputable affinities are where possible treated contiguously. Languages in the centre of the total area are discussed first, followed by thos ein the west, north, east and finally south.

Author : Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317628682

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The Bantu Languages by Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.

Author : Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African languages
ISBN : 0677043805

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Language in Africa by Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen Pdf

This book developed out of a survey course on African languages that Uriel Weinreich invited the author to teach at Columbia University. The focus of the course changed considerably in the years that the author taught the course (1964-1968), in large part to accommodate the interests of many students without a background in linguistics but registered for the course. The one thing African languages have in common, setting them off from all the other languages in the world, is the fact that they are spoken in Africa.

Author : Alice Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429868863

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Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages by Alice Werner Pdf

First published in 1919, this volume provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the Bantu language family of Central and Southern Africa. Its author held in-situ expertise in Nanja, Swahili, Zulu, Giryama and Pokomo. A professor of Swahili and Bantu languages, she was the author of several books on Bantu languages and African peoples. The volume aims to depict the broad principles underlying the structure of the Bantu language family and attempts a classification of those languages. Contemporaneous with the colonization of Tanzania, many of the areas to which this volume was relevant were under British control at the time of publication.

Author : Christopher John Gray
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460488

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Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa by Christopher John Gray Pdf

A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.

Author : Jan M. Vansina
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299125738

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Paths in the Rainforests by Jan M. Vansina Pdf

Vansina’s scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western Bantu; the periods of expansion and innovation in agriculture; the development of metallurgy; the rise and fall of political forms and of power; the coming of Atlantic trade and colonialism; and the conquest of the rainforests by colonial powers and the destruction of a way of life. “In 400 elegantly brilliant pages Vansina lays out five millennia of history for nearly 200 distinguishable regions of the forest of equatorial Africa around a new, subtly paradoxical interpretation of ‘tradition.’” —Joseph Miller, University of Virginia “Vansina gives extended coverage . . . to the broad features of culture and the major lines of historical development across the region between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. It is truly an outstanding effort, readable, subtle, and integrative in its interpretations, and comprehensive in scope. . . . It is a seminal study . . . but it is also a substantive history that will long retain its usefulness.”—Christopher Ehret, American Historical Review

Author : Clement M. Doke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351598415

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The Southern Bantu Languages by Clement M. Doke Pdf

For the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1954, two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari. The book discusses the phonetic and morphological characteristics of these 2 zones and a classification of the groups, clusters and dialects is provided. For comparative purposes detailed information on some striking dialectical forms is given in the appendices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Bantu languages
ISBN : OCLC:1014774764

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The Bantu Languages of Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : A Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429868344

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The Language Families Of Africa by A Werner Pdf

Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.

Author : Irvine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351602938

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Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland by Irvine Richardson Pdf

This volume, originally published in 1957, contains the linguistic evidence for the classification of the languages encountered by the western team of the Northern Bantu Borderland Survey. To appreciate fully its implications it should be read in close conjunction with the appropriate sections of Volume 1 of the Survey, dealing with the demography of this area. The inclusion of some languages over others in this volume in no way reflects its demographic or linguistic importance, but simply indicates that the evidence was available to the Survey. The material is original and except where otherwise indicated was taken down by the team in phonetic script from local informants in situ.

Author : Koen Bostoen,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver,Rozenn Guérois,Sara Pacchiarotti
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104062

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On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar by Koen Bostoen,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver,Rozenn Guérois,Sara Pacchiarotti Pdf

This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.

Author : Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317628699

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The Bantu Languages by Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.