Unpublished. — 77 p. Prepared by the below named authors 1981-1993. Not tone-marked. Roger Blench, Musa Doma, Kaduna, Abuja with contributions from: Saihu Cimbo Leda, Joseph Shazin, Mohammed Sarki Gurfata, Jnynin'zeba Bako Mwnin'zewye and other members of the Gbari community. This printout is being distributed in the Gbari area to everyone interested in the development of the...
Masters Thesis submitted degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics. — University of Texas at Arlington, 1998. — ix, 166 p. Gbari is a Niger-Congo language spoken in central Nigeria. This thesis provides an overview of certain aspects of the language, including the phonological system, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, and certain subordinate constructions. The thesis also treats...
Dakar: Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN), 2016. — 372 p. Les Balant, qui occupent un territoire à cheval sur la Guinée Bissau et le Sénégal, s’auto-désignent comme B12-j4a (singulier À-j4a) et désignent leur langue comme f-j4a. Au Sénégal, on les trouve principalement en Moyenne-Casamance, dans la partie sud de la région administrative de...
2nd, completely revised edition. — Revised and edited by Ulrike Claudi, Johannes Ayao Ossey. — Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2015. — vi, 211 p. — (Study Books of African Languages, Volume 22). — ISBN 978-3-89645-584-0. The late Simon Wellington Dzablu-Kumah (called Mr. Kumah by his colleagues and students) has been lecturer for Ewe at the Institute of African Studies, University...
Herausgegeben von Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Ulrike Claudi, Raimund Kastenholz, Fritz Serzisko. — Köln: Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik. — 41 s. — ISSN 0178-725X. This publication is a slightly revised edition of the syllabus that was first provided in 1973 for the participants of an introductory course in Ewe at the Department of African Linguistics of the State University at...
München: 2011. — ix, 90 p. This book is intended to serve as a modern descriptive grammar of the Aja language, also known as Ajagbe, as spoken in Southwestern Benin. It is my hope that this book can serve two communities. Most importantly, this book is intended to benefit the Aja people of Benin and Togo by providing some of the materials necessary for them to create...
Paris: Ernest Leroux éditeur, 1894. — vi, 438 p. Introduction. Caractères généraux de la langue dahoméenne. Différents dialectes de la famille éoué. Le dahoméen compare aux autres langues africaines. Travaux publiés sur la langue dahoméenne. Comment j’ai recueilli les matériaux de ce Manuel. Vocabulaire comparatif d‘une treataine de mots usuels en 43 dialectes africains....
Portland State University, 2017. — 240 p. — (The Sherbro Language and Culture of Sierra Leone. 55) This dictionary is not a full polished dictionary but was extracted from the FLEx database. Entries contain a Sherbro headword in an orthographic transcription, part of speech, an English translation and at times links to similar words as well as examples with their English...
Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — x, 568 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 11; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-472-7. This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — x, 296 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 9; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-469-7. There is a long and rich tradition of excellence in Ghanaian linguistics and the detailed study of Ghanaian languages. This tradition has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks in part to a cadre of renowned and highly productive...
Compiled and illustrated by S. Krafft. — Portland State University, 2018. — 86 p.: ill. This book introduces students to the writing system of Sherbro. It is the first book of its kind and we hope you find it useful. The Sherbro writing system uses a number of non‐English symbols that are explained in Appendix A at the end of the book. They are the standard symbols used in...
A Dissertation in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Language and Literature, linguistics — Yale University, 1967. — vi, 177 p. The present work is a description of a part of the grammar of Sherbro, a West African language. The description is stated in terms of stratificational grammar, a linguistic theory developed by Sydney Lamb and others. The theory assumes...
Rouen: University of Rouen Normandy, 2020. — 31 p. — (LDQ1632T Typologie et description des familles de langues). Le kituba appartient à la famille des langues bantu. La classification de Malcolm Guthrie le place dans le groupe des langues kongo H10. Présentation. Classification. Répartition géographique. Le munukutuba: langue véhiculaire. Les traits phonétiques du munukutuba....
Monografia. — Warszawa: Elipsa, 2021. — 201 s. — (Języki i kultury Afryki. Languages and cultures of Africa. Tom 9). — ISBN 978-83-8017-409-2. Monografia jest kolejną w serii publikacją Katedry Języków i Kultur Afryki UW poświęconą zagadnieniom języka i literatury suahili. Autorzy omawiają różnorodne zagadnienia szczegółowe z tych dziedzin z perspektywy interdyscyplinarnej i w...
Papers in Honour of Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski. — Warsaw: Elipsa, 2014. — 428 s. — ISBN 978-83-7151-716-7. We offer this collection to our dear Colleague and Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski as our appreciation of his constant love for and great knowledge of Africa, and his generous sharing of this passion and expertise with everybody around him. As Eugeniusz’s former...
Paris: L’Harmattan, 2019. — 426 p. — ISBN 978-2-343-17490-7. Dans cette oeuvre consacrée au munukutuba dont on sait qu’il s’appelle encore — ici ou là — kituba, kikoongo ya l’État ou monokutuba, l’auteur montre comment cette langue dit le réel extralinguistique en même temps qu’il instruit sur sa vitalité. Et l’on découvre une langue qui est tout sauf repliée sur soi, un...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — xlviii, 808 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 4). — ISBN 978-3-96110-406-2. 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...
Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — iv, 433 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 6; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-340-9. Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African...
Selected papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. — xii, 356 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 7; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-309-6. The papers in this volume were presented at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics held at the University of British Columbia in 2019. The contributions span a...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — x, 532 p. — (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 6). — ISBN 978-3-96110-388-1; 978-3-98554-046-4 (Hardcover); ISSN 2512-4862. This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe. Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some 20,000 people. Very little...
Edição do exemplar da Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. — Vila Real: Centro de Estudos em Letras. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2020. — 136 p. — (Linguística 18). — ISBN 978-989-704-412-0; e-ISBN 978-989-704-413-7. Em 1858, Saturnino de Sousa e Oliveira, um brasileiro nascido em Coimbra, assumia o posto de Cônsul-Geral do Brasil em Angola. Seria exonerado...
University of Michigan, 2017. — 4 p. Bangime has an unusual glide (semivowel) ɥ. This is the IPA symbol for a high front rounded semivowel, similar to that in French words like huit [ɥit]. It does not occur in Dogon, Songhay, or (to our knowledge) in Mande languages of the zone. However, it does occur in the neighboring cliffs dialect of Bozo-Jenaama as spoken in Kargué and...
University of Michigan, 2017. — 12 p. This “tour” is designed to help end-users of our Bangime documents (grammar, lexical spreadsheet, texts) understand how the tonal system works. Transcriptions are in IPA. Audio clips are included. Be warned that there is some range in pronunciation, and individual audio clips are not always middle-of-the-road representatives of the...
Report at the seminar "Language isolates in Africa" (Lyon, 3-4 December 2010). — 10 p. The Bɛrɛ (Mbre, Bere, Bre, Pre, Pre Pisia) language is spoken in Cote d’Ivoire in the Marabadiassa area, northwest of Bouake and Diabo, Bondosso and Niantibo villages. The number of speakers in 2000 was about 200 with some 700 acknowledging a Bɛrɛ ethnic affiliation. The population is...
Publisher unknown. — 2019. — xii, 395 p. Pere (in the literature also spelled Pɛrɛ, Bere, Mbre) is a seriously endangered language of central Côte d’Ivoire. It is listed as “Mbre” in Glottolog (viewed July 2018), code mbre1244, and in ISO 639-3, code mka. Pere people have the surname Fofana. The small Pere-speaking zone is a linguistic enclave surrounded by Koro, a Mande...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Amsterdam: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2021. — xvi, 235 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-393-6. This book comprises a general synchronic description of Tagdal a Songhay-Berber mixed language spoken in the southeastern and central regions of the modern-day Republic of Niger. It begins with a...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2013. — xviii, 467 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-113-0. This book presents the first comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xii, 191 p. — (Studies in Laboratory Phonology 3). — ISBN 978-3-944675-99-2. In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance...
Jos: SIL, 2015. — 155 p. The goal of this paper is to provide an in-depth linguistic study of C'Lela, a language of northwestern Nigeria. The speakers of this language, who designate themselves as Lelna, have undertaken the arduous challenge of developing a standard written form of the language. The study aims to be of adequate scope and thoroughness to furnish the linguistic...
Jos, Nigeria: 2020. — 218 p. The goal of this sketch is to provide initial insights on u̱s-Saare̱ ([ɨ̀s-sà:ɾɛ̀]), a language of northwestern Nigeria. A number of speakers of this language, who refer to themselves as Saare̱ ([sà:ɾɛ̀]), have assisted in developing a standard written form of the language and in this analysis. The study aims to be of adequate scope and...
Mesaje: Nchane Language Committee, 2012. — 48 p. This book is written for the Nchane people of the Misaje Sub-Division, Donga-Mantung Division, North West Region, Cameroon. This book is to be used in classes to help speakers of this language, who already read and write English, to learn to read and write Nchane. The teacher and the learner should follow all the instructions in...
Yaoundé: SIL, 2011. — iv, 26 p. The Mungong language serves as an interesting representation of the Eastern Beboid language group. The consonant and vowel inventories are somewhat characteristic of northwestern members of the group (i.e., Chung, Kemezung and Naami), numbering 21 and 9 respectively. On the surface, there are relatively few phonological processes observed which...
Yaoundé: SIL, 2011. — iii, 18 p. This paper proposes an orthography for Mungong, an Eastern Beboid Language spoken by about 1,500 people in the Bum Subdivision, Menchum Division, North West Region, Republic of Cameroon. The Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) (Dieu and Renaud 1983) does not mention Mungong. The Atlas Administratif des langages nationales du Cameroun (Breton...
Yaoundé: SIL, 2008. — iii, 17 p. This paper proposes an orthography for Nchane, an Eastern Beboid Language spoken by about 22,000 people in the Misaje Subdivision, Donga-Mantung Division, North-West Province, Republic of Cameroon. Dieu and Renaud (1983) in the Atlas Linquistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) list the language as: Ncane [873]. The Ethnologue (Gordon 2005) lists the...
Yaoundé: SIL, 2015. — 17 p. This paper concerns the Ncane language spoken in Misaje Subdivision, Donga-Mantung Division, in the North West Region of Cameroon. The current paper is an early effort to describe the tone of the noun phrase. Data for the research comes primarily from a wordlist and tone frames. The wordlist was elicited in 2006 in the village of Nfume with...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 418 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 2). — ISBN 978-3-96110-098-9. This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases used for this purpose open prospects for both...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — v, 251 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 1). — ISBN 978-3-96110-100-9. This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Amsterdam: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2020. — xxiv, 393 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-357-8. A grammar of Nchane is the first comprehensive account of this Beboid language spoken primarily in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. A functional approach is used to describe various aspects of...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Amsterdam: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2020. — xii, 311 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-346-2. This book presents a description of Mankanya, an Atlantic language spoken by about 65 000 speakers in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and the Gambia. It includes a sketch of the phonology and a detailed...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2017. — xxx, 777 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-248-9. This dissertation investigates the grammar of Lumun, a Kordofanian language of the Talodi group, spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. It offers a detailed description of the segmental phonology,...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Amsterdam: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2021. — xvii, 421 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-378-3. Cet ouvrage propose une description du cuvok, une langue parlée par environ 10.000 âmes vivant à l’extrême-nord du Cameroun. L’étude portant sur les éléments linguistiques aborde et fournit une...
Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. — vi, 774 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 4; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-205-1. The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages...
Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2016. — vii, 589 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 1; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-946234-70-8. Diversity in African languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most...
Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. — 345 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 5; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-212-9. Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of...
Second revised edition. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020. — xiv, 386 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 2; ISSN 2511-7726). — ISBN 978-3-96110-294-5. Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. — xv, 701 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 2; ISSN 2749-7798). — ISBN 978-3-96110-311-9. This book is the revised version of the author’s PhD dissertation which was accepted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2015. This grammar offers a grammatical description of the Ngòló variety of...
University of California Press, 1981. — 231+XIV p. — (University of California publications in linguistics; v. 99). — ISBN 0-520-09636-3. Ngizim is a language belonging to the Chadic Family of the Afroasiatic Phylum. Prior to 1970, the only published materials on Ngizim were word lists in Koelle (1854) and Meek (1931). The list in Koelle is identified as Ngó:djin (Ngojin), the...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2014. — 747 p. — ISBN 978-94-6093-156-7. The Ik language (Icé-tód), spoken in northeast Uganda, forms the Kuliak (Rub) subgroup along with So/Tepeth and Nyang’í. These latter two lects have already succombed to assimilative pressures from...