Durham University, 1969. — 424 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Durham University, 1969. — 364 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Durham University, 1969. — 289 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Springer, 2010. — 246 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 78). This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — 332 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 191). Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. — 423 p. — (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 48). The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and...
L'Harmattan, 2010. — 296 p. Dans le souci de perpétuer et de transmettre la culture et la langue fang aux générations futures, cet ouvrage est une modeste contribution de sa grammaire, son vocabulaire et ses expressions courantes. Il ne prétend aucunement faire la synthèse de tout le vocabulaire fang, néanmoins, il peut se prévaloir d'être un manuel pratique et utile à...
Almqvist & Wiksells, 1911. — 324 S. — (Arbeten utgivna med understöd av Vilhelm Ekmans Universitetsfond 10). Zunächst habe ich selbstverständlich alle unnötigen Wiederholungen weggelassen. Konnte doch der Verfasser, als er seinen nubischen Gewahrsmännern die verschiedenen Formen ihrer Muttersprache abfragte, nicht auf einmal in alle Geheimnisse des so wunderbar reich...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2009. — 254 p. — (Grammatical analyses of African languages/Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen 34). It appears that grammar textbooks, social studies, and the like, are taking up the space left by profound grammatical studies into Kiswahili Bantu syntax and morphology and, as a result, the native speaker’s syntactic idioms and usage are increasingly...
Undena Publications, 1977. — 69 p. — (Monographic journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics 5.2). A glance at the morphology of Amharic does not reveal much that is not plainly of Semitic origin, or that cannot be readily explained in Semitic terms. The lexicon, however, has given some casual observers quite a different impression. A close examination of the lexicon,...
Longmans, 1966. — 428 p. Swahili, also known by its native name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of East and Southern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, some parts of Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Longmans, 1966. — 428 p. Swahili, also known by its native name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of East and Southern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, some parts of Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 303 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 58). This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive...
Cerdotola, 1984. — 142 p. ''Situation linguistique en Afrique Centrale, inventaire préliminaire: la République Centrafricaine" est le premier volume de l'Atlas linguistique du Centrafrique qui constitue lui-même la section centrafricaine de l'Atlas linguistique d'Afrique Centrale (ALAC). Il s'agit de la mise en forme et de l'intégration en un volume unique d'un recensement des...
Cerdotola, 2012. — 662 p. Tome 1 - Inventaire des langues Tome 2 - Ébauche d'une bibliographic des langues du Cameroun L’Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun s’actualise et se met à jour sur les traces de son édition originelle publiée en 1983 sous le titre Atlas Linguistique d’Afrique Centrale : le Cameroun, inventaire préliminaire. Ouvrage de référence, cette première publication...
SIL International, 2012. — 149 p. Whereas previous work on Lika (Bantu D.20) has been limited to descriptions of its phonological features, this thesis presents a sketch of Lika grammar. It includes an overview of the morphology and syntax, as well as a description of the syntactic means used to indicate topic and focus. Features which are unusual for Bantu are highlighted. The...
Hippocrene Books, 1999. — 196 p. Igbo, also known as ibo, is one of the major languages of Nigeria. This guide contains an introduction to basic grammar, two-way dictionary, and helpful phrases arranged in 34 sections, each of which deals with aspects of everyday life. Also includes cultural information and a brief history of the Igbo people.
Hippocrene Books, 1999. — 195 p. Igbo, also known as Ibo, is one of the major languages of Nigeria. This dictionary and phrasebook contains an introduction to basic grammar, over 5,000 vocabulary entries and helpful phrases, arranged in 34 sections, each of which deals with aspects of everyday life.
Donniya, 1996. — 479 p. Le Révérend Père Charles Bailleul, des "Pères Blancs", me demande de préfacer son ouvrage qu’humblement il intitule "Petit dictionnaire bambara-francais, francais-bambara". C’est avec joie que je m’exécute. La requête de mon cher prêtre-missionnaire m’a été faite non seulement parce que je suis bambara et que je suis son évêque, mais parce qu’il sait...
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1971. — 504 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 30). La langue parlée, le toura, langue parlée par près de 20 000 habitants d'une région montagneuse située au nord de Man, chef-lieu administratif de l'ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire, est systématiquement analysée dans cette...
Helmut Buske, 1988. — 636 p. The present volume is a selection of the papers presented during the International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic languages held in Cologne, January 6-9, 1986.
Peter Lang, 2011. — 253 p. It is not often that we can observe language change in a language over a period of more than one thousand years. Nobiin-Nubian is the only language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum amongst African languages where this is possible. This book analyzes processes of language change and grammaticalization in this language based on textual evidence from Old...
Institut royal de la culture amazighe, 2013. — 784 p. — (Publications de l'Institut royal de la culture amazighe: Série lexiques 11). Le dictionnaire que vous avez entre les mains renferme un lexique appartenant au parler amazighe en usage a Figuig et ses regions (Sud-est marocain et Sud-ouest algerien).
Lincom Europa, 1996. — 54 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 59). Kunama is spoken by about 100,000 people in Eritrea. Once thought to be a "language isolate", Kunama is now classified as a rather divergent Nilo-Saharan language. Ethnographers have seen Cushitic-like cultural traits among the Kunama and linguistically Kunama shares the SOV-type syntax of the Ethiopian...
LINCOM Europa, 1997. — 251 p. — (LINCOM Handbooks in Linguistics 6). The Nilo-Saharan Phylum is the most controversial outcome of Greenberg's genetic classification of African languages dating from 1963. It combines a number of previous "isolates" and its coherence as against the other phyla (Afrasian, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan) has not been satisfactorily demonstrated. In this...
Michigan State University; African Studies Center, 1983. — 374 p. — (Committee on Northeast African Studies, Monograph 13). Position, Structure and Classification of Songay - Robert Nicolai Languages of Nadai-Darfur - Paul Doornbos and M. Lionel Bender Phonetic Notes on Tone and Quantity in the For Language - Bjorn H. Jernndd Meidob Nubian: Phonology, Grammatical Notes and...
Foris Publications, 1981. — 354 p. Nilotic: Language and History The Segmental Morphology of Proto-Southern Nilotic - Franz Rottland The Tonal System of ProtoKalenjin - Chet A. Creider The Classification of Eastern Nilotic and its Significance for Ethnohistory - Rainer Voβen On Verbal Derivation in Nilotic: The Case of Turkana - Gerrit J . Dimmendaal The Morphophonemics of the...
LINCOM Europa, 2000. — 274 p. — (LINCOM Studies in African linguistics 19). Omotic is the least-known family in the Afrasian (=Afroasiatic or "Hamito-Semitic") phylum. No book-length synthesis of the family has appeared previously and it is not generally known that Omotic is a highly agglutinative family with many obvious Afrasian characteristics. Omotic is located entirely...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1971. — 988 p. — (Current Trends in Linguistics 7). The History of African Linguistics to 1945 - Desmond T. Cole The Present State of African Linguistics - Paul Schachter West Atlantic: An Inventory of the Languages, their Noun Class Systems, and Consonant Alternation - J. David Sapir Niger-Congo, Mande - Wm. E. Welmers Niger-Congo, Gur - John T....
Lincom Europa, 1995. — 260 p. — (LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 2). This book analyzes wh-movement in Tuki, a virtually unstudied language of Cameroon (West Africa). This investigation is conducted under the guidance of Generative Grammar, more precisely the Theory of Principles and Parameters developed by Chomsky (1981, 1982, 1986, 1991). It systematically describes a...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2000. — 286 p. — (Kuschitische Sprachstudien/Cushitic language studies 15). Afaan Oromo belongs to the Cushitic languages among the Afro-Asiatic languages. Other members of this group are Saho-Afar, Somali, Konso, Agaw, Hadiyya and Beja. Oromo is one of the most important languages of Africa, with more than 30 million speakers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia as...
Sudan Research Unit, Fac. of Arts, 1971. — 115 p. — (Linguistic monograph series 6). Moro is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken by the Moro people in the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan, Sudan.
Cambridge, 2005. — 38 p. This is a preliminary dictionary of the Moro language, spoken originally in some vx villages of the Nuba Hills, but principally by dislocated communities in Khartoum.
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 64 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 165). Dàgáárè is a Mabia language of the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family of Africa. It is spoken mainly in northwestern Ghana by about 1.5 million people. This grammatical sketch, based on the Central Dialect spoken around Jirapa, is divided into three chapters of phonology, morphology and syntax....
CSLI Publications, 1997. — 159 p. — (Stanford monographs in African languages). This book grew out of Dagaare field methods courses at the University of Trondheim, Norway and at Stanford University. The monograph covers basic aspects of the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Dagaare, such as vowel harmony, tone, the noun class system, serial verbs and other complex...
Ernest Leroux, 1908. — 396 p. Le Maroc est assurement la partie de l'Afrique du Nord ou lament berbère, tant par les moeurs que par la langue, c'est le mieux conserve. C'est du moins l'impression que j'ai rapporté de ma mission.
SELAF, 1978. — 555 p. — (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale 29). Le sango, dont il est question dans cet ouvrage essentiellement pratique, est avec le français la langue véhiculaire et nationale de Centrafrique. L'usage en a été répandu au temps de la colonisation française, d'une part par les turugus - soldats africains supplétifs employés par l'armée française - et...
Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, 1978. — 124 p. — (Bibliothèque de la SELAF 65). Etude préliminaire à une dialectologie banda A propos des ressemblances lexicales entre langues Niger-Congo et Nilo-Sahariennes
Akademie-Verlag, 1985. — 229 S. Nach allgemeinen und meist unwidersprochenen Annahmen von Sprachwissenschaftlern und Ethnographen werden auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent etwa 700—1000 verschiedene Sprachen und Dialekte gesprochen, die durch eine annähernd entsprechende Zahl mehr oder weniger fest gefügter ethnischer Einheiten repräsentiert werden. Selbst wenn man einräumen muß,...
Lit Verlag, 2014. — 334 S. — (Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie 8). Diese erste konzise Einführung in die Meroitistik soll durch eine umfassende Behandlung von Sprache in Nubien einst und jetzt den Leser in die Lage versetzen, sich ein eigenes Bild von der meroitischen Schriftsprache und ihrer genetischen Zugehörigkeit zu machen. Hinterfüttert wird dies durch knappe...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 338 S. — (Meroitica: Schriften zur altsudanesischen Geschichte und Archäologie 29). In 21 Studien behandelt Francis Breyer eine Reihe konkreter Fragen zu Aspekten der Schrift-, Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte Nubiens: Welche Sprache gebrauchten die Träger der C-Gruppe? War Meroitisch die Sprache der Kerma-Elite? Seit wann werden im Niltal...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2004. — 367 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156). Globalisation and African Languages links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include...
Mödling, 1989. — 148 p. — (Beiträge zur Sudanforschung: Beiheft 5). In this volume I have assembled the texts that form the basis of the grammatical analysis presented in my Introduction to Old Nubian (Meroitica 11, 1989) and Studies in Old Nubian (Beitraége zur Sudanforschung, Beiheft 3, 1988). In addition to transcripts and translations (Part I), I have included a brief...
Egypt Exploration Society, 1989. — 108 p. — (Texts from Excavations 2). This volume comprises editions of Old Nubian texts uncovered in the course of the excavations conducted at Qasr Ibrim by the Egypt Exploration Society in 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1984. Most of the literary or theological texts discovered during those years are here edited, and a selection of the documentary...
Egypt Exploration Society, 1991. — 184 p. — (Texts from Excavations 3). The Old Nubian texts in this volume were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society in the course of its 1974 excavations at Qasr Ibrim. They were all found in a large sealed jar, and J.M. Plumley has surimarily described them in his paper "New Light on the Kingdom of Dotawo," Etudes Nubiennes, Cairo 1978,...
Wien, 1998. — 48 p. — (Beiträge zur Sudanforschung: Beiheft 8). Any reader of the corpus of Old Nubian quickly notices that it contains many passages requiring editorial adjustment. At times, omissions — ranging from the loss of a single letter to the disappearance of an entire clause — disfigure the text, and _ at times, superfluous letters, syllables or entire words must be...
Mödling, 1994. — 120 p. — (Beiträge zur Sudanforschung: Beiheft 7). This book grew out of a course on Old Nubian that I conducted when I was Guest ‘Professor of Egyptology and Sudan Archaeology in the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (DDR) for the fall semester of 1986. In it I seek to elucidate one of the basic texts of Old Nubian literature, the Miracle of Saint Menas. The...
QuASAR, 2011. — 292 p. — (Quaderni di lingua e storia 3). Sergio Baldi, Rudolf Leger - Arabic Loans in Bole-Tangale. A closer look to Bole, Karekare, Ngamo, Kupto and Kwami Václav Blažek - Surmic Numerals in the East Cushitic Perspective Vermondo Brugnatelli - Some grammatical features of Ancient Eastern Berber (the language of the Mudawwana) Luca Busetto - Note...