Angoche: Sociedade Internacional de Linguística, Projecto Ekoti, 2009. — 32 p. The Koti language, or Ekoti, is a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique by about 64,200 people, the Koti people (Akoti). Koti is spoken on Koti Island and is also the major language of Angoche, the capital of the district with the same name in the province of Nampula. In terms of genetic...
Angoche: Sociedade Internacional de Linguística, Projecto Ekoti, 2002. — 1, 25, 42 p. The Koti language, or Ekoti, is a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique by about 64,200 people, the Koti people (Akoti). Koti is spoken on Koti Island and is also the major language of Angoche, the capital of the district with the same name in the province of Nampula. In terms of genetic...
Yaounde: 2006. — 306 p. The Njyem (or Njem or Ndjem) are an ethnic group inhabiting the rain forest zone of southern Cameroon and northern Republic of the Congo. In Cameroon, the Njyem live along the road running south from Lomié, passing the government center of Ngoyla and going as far south as Djadom. From there, footpaths extend to Souanke in northern Congo. Their territory...
Publication date: 2006/2007 Number of pages: 409 Eléments de Description de l’Orungu - Langue Bantu du Gabon. Les parlers du groupe myènè ont bénéficié d’un certain intérêt dans les études linguistiques bantu. Toutefois, les acquis sont fragmentaires et portent sur des points précis de la langue. Aussi avons-nous choisi de réaliser une étude globale de la langue, du moins de sa...
Kyoto University, 2013. — 163 p. This work, A Grammatical Sketch of Mòkpè (Bakweri), is a linguistic description that emphasizes data showing the basic and relevant structures of the language. It covers four aspects: phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax. Phonology studies the sound and tone systems of a language and revealed that Mokpe has seven vowels and 23...
Editions L'Harmattan, 2005. — 280 p. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 978-2747588942. A Bukavu, bien que située dans le bushi, on parle plus le swahili que le mashi; Mais comment l'apprendre sans professeurs, sans manuels ? Dans le cadre éducatif familial, les parents devraient apprendre à leurs enfants le patrimoine culturel shi. Sans politique linguistique nationale (le Congo a plus de...
Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela: Borrador, 2013. — 28 p. Bestue Briones B. Why is our language disappearing? (in Spanish and Ndove) Índice: Presentación. Introducción. Sinonimía. Antonimía. Meronimía con hiponimía. Anécdotos. Conclusión. Los ndowé son un grupo étnico de Guinea Ecuatorial, los cuales se diferencian por su lengua, llamada "combe" o "ngumbi". Lo habla una pequeña parte de...
Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela: Borrador, 2013. — 56 p. Bestue Briones B. Reading and writing in the Ndove language: primer, part 2 (in Spanish and Ndove) Hago este libro para personas que quieren aprender a leer y a escribir en ndowé. En este libro quiero enseñar como unirlas letras para formar las palabras en el idioma ndowé. Los ndowé son un grupo étnico de Guinea Ecuatorial, los...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. — 637 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 203) This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a...
Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995. — 69 p. (in French and Eviya languages) Bodinga-Bwa-Bodinga S., Van der Veen L. J. Proverbs of the people of Evia and the animal world (Gabon). Table des matieres: Les proverbes. Types de constructions. Le monde animal et son impact dans l'expression des valeurs morales. Le systeme des valeurs. Le eviya ou geviya est une langue bantoue parlée au Gabon...
Madrid: SIAL Ediciones, 1999. — 165 p. Índice: Na bóállo — Yo saludo. Ká lwё le? — Cómo estáis? Ёbeló - El tiempo. Ntyé ö purí é? - De donde eres? Yo rihwe - La familia. I tyé - Los países. Ö witáeri - El encuentro. A béso'om - Mis amigos. O ihera tokko - Pedir información. Yo ripölló - La fiesta. La lengua bohobé o bubi es hablada por la etnia bubi de la isla de Bioko, Guinea...
Publisher: Universidad de Salamanca Date: 2008 P; ages: 153 ISBN: 9788474814927 El mosaico formado por las más de mil lenguas habladas en África ha atraído a numerosos lingüistas, aunque hoy día la atención que las Universidades le dedican es más bien escasa. La obra ofrece un acercamiento de esta realidad al mundo hispano y más en concreto el estudio de la lengua bantú a...
Lodja, Rép. Dem. Congo: Ëglise Méthodiste du Congo Central, 1965. — 245 p. Authors: R. Heber, R. Grant, W. Kethe and others. A collection of Christian psalms in the Tetela language. Ekahanyelu k'Esambu: Wa Ntemola Nzambi. Jesu Kristu. Nyuma k'Ololo. Lukumu l'Ololo. Tshelu di'Asika Kristu. Ekelizia. W'Osengosengo. W'Akenda. Diulelu dia Nzambi. Lumu la Pundju. W'Antu w'Edima wa...
Bookworld Publ., 2001. — 96 p. — ISBN: 9982240161. This is the fourth in a series of individual publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is to boost the meagre scholarship and availability of educational materials on Zambian languages, which became particularly in urgent in 1996, following the decision of the Zambian government to revert to the...
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 355 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely...
Berwick-on-Tweed: Daniel Cameron, 1848. — 57 p. Clark John. Introduction to the Bubi (Fernandine) language, part 1 (In English) Bube, Bohobé or Bube–Benga (Bobe, Bubi), is a Bantu or Bantoid language spoken by the Bubi, a Bantu people native to, and once the primary inhabitants of, Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. The language was brought to Bioko from continental Africa more...
Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 2011. — 310 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-09886-2. This study presents a grammar, texts, and lexicon of Nzadi, a virtually unknown Bantu language spoken along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. During the academic year 2008-2009 we were fortunate to be able to work together when the third author, a...
Torelló: Impremta Sellares S.L., 1989. — 95 p. Kreus H., Kola Ipuva A. Tales of animals in the Ndove language with translation into Catalan. Índex: La gallina i l'escarabat / Kuba na etanda. L'orella i el mosquit / Vipisi na ylo. El gat i el ratolí / Pwisi na etolo. La serp i l'esquirol / Nyo na sikweya. El llangardaix i el cameleó / Egolo na ngolokodi. Els animals i la gent /...
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1890. — 392 p. Dias de Carvalho En. A. Practical course of the Lunda language with the application of stories from the lives of various peoples (in Porto) Indice: Prefacio. Phonologia. Morphologia. Syntaxe. Vocabulario. Lunda (Chilunda) is a Bantu language spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)....
Arlington: the University of Texas, 2001. — 171 p. Duke D. J. Aka language as a contact language: sociolinguistic and grammatical aspect (In English) Literature Review. Linguistic Evidence. Sociolinguistic Evidence. Aka, also known as Yaka or Beka, is a Bantu language spoken in the Central African Republic and Republic of Congo, along the Ubangi River dividing the two...
Publication date: 2005 Number of pages: 327 Éléments de Description du Langi, Langue Bantu F33 de Tanzanie: Phonologie - Grammaire - Lexique. The little-known Bantu language Langi, spoken in north-central Tanzania, is described in this thesis at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Chapter 1, "Introduction" [6-16], describes the ethnohistory of the Langi people, the position of...
Publisher: Nabu Press Publication date: 1900-2009 Number of pages: 186 ISBN: 978-1141234943 Pequeno vademecum da lingua Bantu na provincia de Moçambique ou breve estudo da lingua Chi-yao ou Adjaua: comparada com os dialectos de Sena, Tete e Quelimane e seguida d'um vocabulario da mesma lingua. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional...
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN: 995657869X. The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Buea. It is the first serious piece of work on this highly endangered language, and aims to account generally for the data of Bafaw. The work...
Editions L'Harmattan, 2000. — 320 p. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 978-2738483157. Ce livre montre, à travers le cas des Tékés du Congo-Brazzaville, ce qu'est cette culture, dans ses formes anciennes et actuelles. Il montre aussi le degré de souplesse de sa langue, à savoir le téké, et celui de son ouverture sur les autres langues : le mbochi, le kongo et surtout le français dont elle a...
Anrt Diffusion, 2006. — 718 p. — ISBN: 9782729573485. Cette thèse s’est construite comme un travail visant à comprendre que les pratiques linguistiques inscrivent le locuteur dans un rapport d’altérité, par des phénomènes essentiellement sociaux et dynamiques. Ces dernières sont alors comprises comme des ressources de gestion relationnelle, des rites d’interaction. Sur le plan...
Bookworld Publ., 2002. - 120 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9982241591 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789982241595 First published as a chapter in Language in Zambia: Grammatical Sketches by the Institute of African Studies (now the Institute of Economic and Social Research) in 1977, this is the second in a series of individual publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is...
Guajará-Mirim: UNIR, 2009. — 187 p. (351 p.) Gomes Flores K. Names of the felines in the Bantu languages (in port.) Sumário: Prolegomenos: Teóricos e Classificatórios. As denominaçoes dos felinos em Bantu: Ilustraçoes e distribuiçoes. Inventário das denominaçoes com a classificaçao referencial de Guthrie. Classificaçao semantica dos zoonimos. Conjuntos de cognatos. Conclusao.
Angoche: Sociedade Internacional de Linguística, Projecto Ekoti, 2001. — IV, 16 p. The Koti language, or Ekoti, is a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique by about 64,200 people, the Koti people (Akoti). Koti is spoken on Koti Island and is also the major language of Angoche, the capital of the district with the same name in the province of Nampula. In terms of genetic...
E-book, February 1982 (2012). — 49 p. Heath D., Heath T. Mekaa Phonology (In English) Inventory of Phones. Interpretation of Ambiguous Clusters. Consonant Phonemes. Vowel Phonemes. Tone. Units above the Phoneme.
Yaoundé: Association des étudiants mboó de l'Université de Yaoundé, 1981. — 84 p. Hedinger R. A concise grammar of the mboo language (in French) Table des matieres: Lecture: deux contes mboó. Les noms. Les verbes. Petit lexique. Traduction des deux contes. Solution des exercices. Le mboó, aussi appelé mbo ou sambo, est une langue bantoue parlée au Cameroun. Elle ne doit pas...
London: University of London, 1987. — 306 p. — ISBN: 0-7286-0135-4 Manenguba languages (Bantu A. 15, Mbo cluster) in Cameroon. Reconstruction of Proto-Manenguba. Sound Changes and Reflexes of PM Sounds. Aspects of the Noun Class and Concord System. Proto-Manenguba and Proto-Bantu. Classification of the Manenguba Languages. Manenguba, Ngoe or Mbo is a cluster of Bantu languages...
Yaoundé: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1977. — 88 p. Hedinger R., Hedinger S. Phonology of the Akoose / Bakossi language (In English) Breath group. Elision group. Phonological word. Syllable. Interpretation problems. Phoneme. Tone. Text. Word lists. Akɔɔse, also known as Koose and Bakossi, is a Bantu language, spoken in Cameroon by the Bakossi people. The number of speakers...
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1907. — 171 p. Handle P. J. Wapogoro language (in German) The Pogoro (also Pogolo) are an ethnic and linguistic peoples based in Iringa Region and Morogoro Region, Tanzania. Inhalt: Vorwort. Lautbezeichnung und Aussprache. Substantiva. Adjectiva. Pronomina. Numeralia. Verba. Adverbia. Praepositionen. Konjunktionen. Interjektionen. Deutsch-Chipogoro...
London: Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1889. — XVI, 281 p. In the first part of the book the chief characteristics of the language are unfolded and the principal laws that guide its structure are explained. Part II contains the Yao-English vocabulary. Yao is a Bantu language in Africa with approximately two million speakers in Malawi, and half a million each in...
Center for the Study of Language and Information, Leland Stanford Junior University, 1999. — 606 p. Twenty-two years ago, an important conference entitled "L'Expansion Bantoue", held in Viviers, brought together an impressive array of scholars interested in the comparative and historical study of the Bantu languages and peoples. The proceedings of this colloque, published in...
CSLI Publications, 1998. — 376 p. — ISBN: 1-57586-095-3; ISBN: 1-57586-094-5. This book brings together a collection of papers focusing on the tonal systems of the Bantu languages of sub-Saharan Africa. These papers are alike in their attempt to fuse the description of Bantu tone with linguistic theory, but at the same time reflect a range of such theoretical perspectives...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 469 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). — ISBN10: 3110488388, ISBN13: 978-3110488388. This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical...
L'Harmattan, 2006. — 218 p. — (Parlons). Parlons Isangu Langue et Culture des Bantu-Masangu du Gabon. Au moment même où leur pronostic vital est en jeu, les langues gabonaises se voient soudain surfer sur une vague de lexiques, de dictionnaires et de méthodes d'apprentissage dites couramment « Assimil ». On lève les bras au ciel ! On avait cru un instant que l'intérêt pour la...
Paris: Orstom, 1983. — 358 p. Les Groupes B.10, B.20 et B.30 de la classification de Guthrie sont situés dans la zone Congo-Gabon. L'étude est basée sur des recherches effectuées dans 22 langues identifiées au cours d'un inventaire. Elle comprend trois parties, consacrées chacune à un groupe. Dans chaque partie sont étudiés succesivement: l'inventaire des langues rencontrées....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. — 820 p. Johnston H. Garry. Comparative analysis of Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages (In English) A History of Research into the Bantu Languages. The Distribution and Characteristics of the Bantu Languages. Illustrative Vocabularies of 366 Bantu and 87 Semi-Bantu Languages and Dialects. Supplementary Additions and Corrections of the Foregoing...
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014. — 350 p. — ( Schriften zur Afrikanistik / Research in African Studies (Book 23) This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Imenti, Igoji, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi and Chuka) belong to the so-called Meru group....
Faculty of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, 2007. — 346 p. Kendall I. Mark. Narrative discourse in the Tunen language and the role of those participating in it (In English) Literature Review. Overview of Tunen Grammar. Methodology. Participant Reference Resources. Sequential Default. Discourse Operations. Texts. Sample Charts. Givon Counts. Tunen, also known as...
Publisher: LINCOM. Published in: 2005. Pages: 178. This study describes some key aspects of Kikamba grammar in the context of advances in theoretical linguistics. As a preliminary to the main discussion, the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language are outlined in chapter 2. The book then describes in detail the agreement system, chapter 3; the pronominal system,...
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. — 139 p. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 2-296-00470-9. Les peuples Tumbuka constituent environ 9% de la population totale du Malawi et leur langue est actuellement une lingua franca régionale. Ce groupe ethnique est un des plus anciens du territoire et selon les historiens ils sont les premiers occupants de la région du nord du Malawi. On trouve également des...
Editions L'Harmattan, 2005. — 251 p. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 2-7475-8054-7. La société mozambicaine a un patrimoine culturel et linguistique très riche et dynamique. Ce pays est parmi ceux qui ont le plus grand nombre des langues indigènes, dont le ciyawo. En l'occurrence, une population considérable des Yao se trouve également au Malawi et en Tanzanie. Ce livre présente donc une...
London: Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill, 1888. — 99 p. Kolb F.W. The Study of Bantu Languages, or a Study of the Laws of Root Formation, the Initial Plural and Gender Dual, and the Principles of Lexical Comparison (In English) Introductory. Primitive Alphabet - Primeval Laws of Consonants. Primeval Laws of the Vowels. The Vowel-Method in Universal Etymology. Notes on the Primitive...
Yaoundé: Université de Yaoundé, 2004. — 174 p. Congne Velaze J. Morphology of the verb in the Tuki language (in French) Sommaire: Introduction générale. Rappels phonologiques et morphologiques. Structure morphologique du verbe. La dérivation verbale. Le groupe verbal. La flexion verbale. Conclusion générale. Documents annexes.
London: Department of Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2007 — vi + 260 p. — (SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 15) — ISBN: 978-0-7286-0380-6, ISSN: 1473-0855. The papers in this special volume of SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics result from an international conference entitled ‘Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory’, held at SOAS...
Publication date: 2004 Number of pages: 301 Xitsonga (Tsonga) is a member of the Bantu branch of Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken by about 3.6 million people, who call themselves the Shangaan. The majority of Shangaan live in the Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa, where Tsonga is one of the official languages. There are also speakers of Tsonga...
L'Harmattan, 2001. — 210 p. Le yipunu est l'une des langues gabonaises les plus parlées, couvrant la plupart des provinces du pays. Cette méthode est destinée à ceux qui veulent apprendre et acquérir des bases solides en yipunu. Elle donne des éléments de la conversation courante, présente des points de grammaire et un lexique d'environ 3000 mots. L'ouvrage présente également...
London: Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1902. — 158 p. The Alphabet. Substantives. Verbs. Adjectives. Pronouns. Adverbs. Prepositions and conjuctions. Interjections, salutations, and the initial vowel. Lunyoro-English vocabulary. English-Lunyoro vocabulary.
Electronic Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics, 2009. - 468 p. The Bantu Online Bibliography, or BOB for short, is a bibliography with the sole aim of listing any and all works dealing with the sub-Saharan Bantu languages. It aims to be exhaustive with regard to linguistic works, as well as reliable and accurate with regard to bibliographical details. BOB is...
Lusaka: the University of Zambia, 2008. — 110 p. Mambwe K. Kaonde language and its dialects (In English) Literature Review. Discussion of the Structure of the Kaonde Language. Data Analysis and Interpretation. Conclusion and Recommendations. Kaonde (kiiKaonde) is a Bantu language of the larger Niger–Congo family, that is spoken primarily in Zambia, but also in the Democratic...
University of Michigan, 2007. — 597 p. This dissertation is a study of the verbal tone patterns Lumarachi and Lunyala — two previously undescribed dialects of Luluyia, a Bantu language of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. On the basis of data collected by the author primarily during field research, it describes and analyzes the many tonal alternations that are triggered in each...
Leipzig: G. Kreysing, 1901. — 76 p. Meinhof K. The Venda language: a linguistic study (in German) Venda, also known as Tshivenḓa or Luvenḓa, is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10% of its speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to...
Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1968. — 471 p. Morton L.R., Bot Ba Njok H.M., Sende P. Basa language in Cameroon (in English, French and Basa) This text comprises an introductory course in the language of the Basaa tribe of Cameroon; it includes both general social and survival needs and specific materials for Peace Corps workers in the health field. The format...
L'Harmattan, 2008. — 250 p. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 2296064949. Le kihunde, langue des Bahunde, est parmi les plus connues et les plus anciennes du Kivu, à l'Est du Congo-Kinshasa. Le kihunde est capable de servir de support de la mémoire collective et de vecteur du patrimoine culturel et de la sensibilité de ses locuteurs locaux. Après la description du kihunde, ce livre présente...
University of Newfoundland, 1998. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-612-36209-4. A Reconstruction of the Proto-Rutara Tense/Aspect System with verb paradigms of the main Rutaran languages.
Kwale (Kenya), 2005. — 231 p. — ISBN: 9966-00-066-6. The Digo language is a Bantu language classified as E.73 (Guthrie) or North-East Coast (Nurse). The Digo people are the second largest of nine coastal ethnies known as the Mijikenda, and are concentrated in the coastal area and eastern slopes of the coastal hills from Mombasa, Kenya, south to Tanga, Tanzania. According to...
University of California, 2008. — 367 p. This dissertation examines verbal tone in Kuria, an Eastern Bantu language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania. It shows that Kuria has a predictable tone system, in that, verbs are assigned high tones on the first, second, third, fourth, or first and fourth vowels of the macrostem, beginning at the left edge. It employs a mora or vowel count...
Nairobi: Ndanyi enterprises, 2005. — XXVII, 249 p. — ISBN: 9966-7090-0-2. A monolingual explicative Lulogooli-Lulogooli dictionary. The order of pages in the file: I-XV, 28-87, XVI-XXVII, 1-27, 88-249
Maputo: Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA) – UEM, 2012. — 311 p. Ngunga A., Sitia Simbine M. A grammatical outline of the Tsonga language (Xi)Tsonga (in Porto) Introduçao. Elementos de fonética. Elementos de fonologia. Elementos de morfologia nominal. Morfologia verbal. Elementos de sintaxe. Semántica. Diversos fenómenos gramaticais e outros. Listas.
London: Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2003. — 868 p. Nurse D., Philipson J. (eds.) Bantu Languages (In English) The Sounds of the Bantu languages. Segmental Phonology. Tone. Derivation. Aspect and Tense in Bantu languages. Bantu nominal morphology. Syntax. Historical Linguistics. Towards a Historical Classification of the Bantu languages. Grammaticalization. Contact languages in...
Publisher: Department of Linguistics, Memorial University Publication date: 2007 Number of pages: 362 Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 424 p. Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world`s largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet...
Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2005. — 111 p. Okoudova B. Beginnings of phonology and morphology of the Lembaama / Obamba language (in Porto) Sumário: Introduçao. Descriçao fonológica. A nasalidade. A sílaba. Morfologia nominal: o sistema dos nomes do lembaama. Alguns fenomenos e regras fonológicos observados. Os tons do lembaama. Consideraçoes finais. Léxico lembaama —...
Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2010. — 192 p. Okoudova B. Morphology of the verb in the Lembaama / Obamba language (in Porto) Sumário: Introduçao. Estudo das línguas Bantas. Principais características da fonologia e da morfologia nominal do Lembaama. Estrutura do verbo em Lembaama. A derivaçao verbal. Tempo, aspecto e modo em Lembaama. Consideraçoes finais. Apendices....
The Central Mission Press, Cleveland, Transvaal, 1965. — 124 p. The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan. Tsonga belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages. The language of the Tsonga people is wrongly called Xichangana (or "Shangaan" by outsiders) because the people were under the Leadership of...
Peace Corps. — 87 p. As someone immersed in a new culture, possibly for the first time, your linguistic needs are twofold. First, you need to learn how to function. This book tackles this objective by presenting a series of content-oriented chapters that will familiarize you with the vocabulary and phrases of daily life. The second need is to understand the structure of the...
Peace Corps. — 122 p. This Peace Corps course is an introductory language guide to Kikamba language spoken in Kenya. The course includes 13 lessons which cover the following general topics: Greetings. Introduction 1. Introduction 2. What Do you Do? What Do You Like to Eat? How Many are they? My Family. Ordering Food. Money and Prices. How Much is it? What Time is it Now? What...
Peace Corps. — iv, 98 p. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safety and security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your community better. You will...
Peace Corps, 1971. — 87 p. This Peace Corps Lunyoro course includes 32 lessons: That is your name? This person's name is No, my name is not Dialogue for breakfast in the hotel Are you an American? Ways for forming up Vocabulary Conversation I am from America Building Up Vocabulary I come from Northent Part of America Common Health Problems I am not from India I live here now 1...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xii + 385 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 2). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-014-9; 978-3-96110-015-6. Nyakyusa is a Bantu language spoken in the Mbeya region of south-western Tanzania, in the coastal plains of lake Nyassa (Lake Malawi) and the hills extending to the north of it, with the biggest urban centres being Tukuyu and Kyela. Its...
Publication date: 1991 Number of pages: 542 La présente étude est l'oeuvre d'un comparatiste, formé originellement à la méthode comparative de Guthrie et à la morphophonologie de l'école de Tervuren. Une vaste entreprise de classification de l'ensemble des langues bantu d'Afrique Orientale, menée avec mon collègue D. Nurse, à l'Université de Dar-es-Salaam, en Tanzanie, au cours...
The Ohio State University, 1998. — 399 p. This dissertation examines several issues in the phonology and morphology of the Bantu language Runyankore. While this language has been studied in the past, to date there has been no extensive discussion of the tonal patterns, reduplication, or the syntax-phonology interface. Along with a descriptive account of these aspects of the...
Yaounde: SIL, 2002. — 20 p. Pretty R. A Grammar Outline of the Nulibi/Elip Language (In English) Basic Word Order. Adjectives and Adjectival Phrases. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases. The Place of Direct and Indirect Objects. Pronouns. Temporal References in Ihinehine text. Appendix: Story of Ihinehine. Nulibie, or Elip, is a Bantu language spoken by about 10,000 people in the...
Utrecht: LOT, 2009. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-90-78328-96-4. This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison. Object marking is approached from the perspective of Minimalist syntax. The central claim is that object marking in Sambaa and related languages can be...
Editors: Sharon Hargus, Manuel Da Conceicáo University of Washington, 1999. - 148 p. Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a South-Eastern Bantu language in the Tswa–Ronga family spoken just South of Maputo in Mozambique. It extends a little into South Africa. It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects including...
Publisher: SIL International. Date: 2010. Number of pages: 289. The Bantu Orthography Manual is a resource for developing writing systems among the Bantu subgroup of Niger-Congo languages. It offers a strategy for orthography development, combined with a list of resources for Bantu linguistic information and the condensed advice of a coterie of respected Bantu linguistic...
Heidelberg — Paris — London — Rom — St. Petersburg: Julius Groos' Verlag, 1904. — 120 p. Seidel A. The Duala language in Cameroon: an introduction to grammar and a short dictionary (in German) Page quality: good. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorwort. Lautlehre. Formenlehre. Einige Bemerkungen zur Syntax. Einiges über die Wortbildung der Hauptwörter. Systematisches Wörterverzeichnis....
Heidelberg: Juius Groos, 1904. — 132 S. Duala ist eine Bantusprache in Kamerun. Sie wird von circa 88.000 Menschen gesprochen. Duala ist eine Nordwest-Bantusprache und gehört zur Duala-Gruppe, die als Guthrie-Zone A20 klassifiziert wird.
Tanzania, Zanzibar: Soli Gloria, 1867. — 82 p. Stere Edward. Materials for learning the Shambhala language (In English) Shambala or Shambaa is a Bantu language of Tanzania. The Alphabet. Substantives. Adjectives. Pronouns. Verbs. Adverbs. Prepositions. Conjunctions and Interjections.
Congo Belge, June 24, 1939. — 13 p. Stilts E.B. Proverbs of the Tetela people (in English and Tetela) 1. Kanga yenda, ku muna ndjuku? The guineas are looking, and you plant ground peas? (That is, they will come and scratch them up). Wait until the others go away, so that I can talk to you privately.2. Kusha koko, ku ndu ukanga a lodi? I give you a chicken, and you want a charm...
Publisher: Unity Movement of South Africa Year: 1980 Pages: 64 ISBN10: 0907201008 ISBN13: 978-0907201007 Language: English It is now twenty years since Education for Barbarism first appeared. The analysis presented in it has subsequently been confirmed by the Soweto student revolt. Anyone who wants to understand in depth why the strikes against school curricula by school...
Yaoundé: Société Internationale de Linguistique, 1992. — 175 p. Ur E. A grammar sketch of the Kako language (in French) Table des matieres: Les sons et la notion du mot. Le groupe nominal et ses éléments. Le groupe prépositionel et ses éléments. Références. Le kako ou mkako, est une langue bantoue parlée par environ 120 000 personnes au Cameroun et en République centrafricaine.
Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 456 p. A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal...
Leuven University, 2008. — 485 p. This is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes....
Lyon: Université Lumiere-Lyon, Dynamique du Langage. — 57 p. Van der Veen L. J. Essay on the grammar of the Gevowe language (Gabon). Table des matieres: La langue de Wa-Vové. Phonologie. Le systeme des classes nominales. Lexique gevové-français. Le Gé-vové est une langue bantoue dont le nombre de locuteurs était estimé à 8 000 personnes. C'est la langue parlée par les Pové, un...
Lyon: Université Lumiere-Lyon 2, 1991. — 470 p. Van der Veen L.J. A comparative study of the languages of the Okani group in Gabon (in French) Table des matieres: Esquisse en vue de la description du ge-tsogo. Esquisse en vue de la description du ge-bobe. Esquisse en vue de la description du ge-bia. Esquisse en vue de la description du ge-pinzi. Esquisse en vue de la...
Lyon: Université Lumiere-Lyon, 1999. — 158 p. Van der Veen L. J. Language and traditional society of the Evia people of the Bantu group, Gabon (in French) Table des matieres: Langue et catégorisation lexicale. Langue et systeme tonal. Langue et systeme idéologique. Langue et échanges ritualisés. La catégorisation nominale dans les langues du monde. La catégorisation nominale en...
Cape Town: Cape Times Ltd. Government Printers, 1907. — 97 p. Van Ordt J.F. The Origin of Bantu Languages: An Introductory Study (In English) Page quality: good. This essay purports to be a mere "Preliminary Study" on the Origin of the Bantu. Though I flatter myself that I have found the keys which will unlock most of the safes containing the secrets of Bantu philology, and of...
1897-1902. - p. A Grammar of Herero in German language. Das Otjiherero, Sprache der Herero (Ovaherero), ist der südwestlichste Zweig jener Sprachenfamilie, für welche der Name Bantu- Sprachen (d.h. wörtlich Menschen- Sprachen) jetzt ziemlich allgemein im Gebrauch ist. Die dieser Familie angehörenden Sprachen zählen zu Hunderten. Im deutschen West-, Südwestund Ostafrika, bei den...
Utrecht: LOT, 2009. — 276 p. Most of the research on Bantu languages has concentrated on the phonological and morphological aspects of these languages, while the syntactic issues remain largely understudied. Specifically interesting in the syntax of Bantu languages is the relatively free word order. Bearth (2003:128) notes that the variability of verb-external constituent order...
Publisher: Hippocrene Books Publication date: 1995 Number of pages: 586 Venda, also known as Tshivenda, or Luvenda, is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa, but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe. During the Apartheid era of South Africa, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of...
Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Africa, 2015. — 393 p. Wendlang E. R. The dramatic talent of Julius Chongo A collection of Nyanja radio tales with English translation and analysis (in English and Nyanja/Cheva languages) Ernst R. Wendland (Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature — University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979) has been an instructor at the Lutheran...
Unisa Press / Uitgewers, 1982. — 212 p. — ISBN10: 1868882950, ISBN13: 978-1868882953. This trilingual Venda-Afrikaans-English dictionary is for use by those who have at least an elementary knowledge of the grammatical and sound systems of Venda. Originally compiled for the use of students enrolled for the Special Course in Venda, it was found that the interest in and need for...
Journal of the African Society, 1906. — pp. 154-166. Werner A. Notes on the Shambhala language and some related languages of East Africa (In English) Swahili in some respects the Bantu tongue best known to Europeans; but less attention has been paid to the group of languages immediately behind the " Mrima " or strip of coast whose inhabitants speak a dialect differing but...
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO. Ltda, 1919. — 369 p. The Bantu family of languages is spoken throughout Southern and Central Africa, as far as the Gulf of Cameroons on the northwest, and the Tana river on the north-east. In the Cameroons and along the southern edge of the Congo basin, the line of demarcation between Bantu and non- Bantu (in this case Sudan or 'Nigritian ')...
Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., 1993 (2012). - 79 p. In the Tonga language (Chitonga). Steps to Christ is a Christian book by Ellen White. First published in 1892. Nguzu a kuzubululwa kwa zintu zyoonse zilumbaizya luyando lwa Leza. Taata wesu ulikujulu nkasensa ka buumi, ibusongo a kukomana. Kolanga kuzintu zikankamanisya zibotu zya nguzu zyakwe. Koyeeya kubambwa kwazyo...
Biola University, May 2006. — 135 p. Weeks D. A. A grammatical outline of the Lunyole language with an emphasis on applicative constructions (In English) Nyole (also LoNyole, Lunyole, Nyuli) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people in Tororo District, Uganda near Lake Kyoga. There is 61% lexical similarity with a related but different Nyole language in Kenya. Introduction...
New York: Mission House, 1879. — 115 p. Wilson J. L. Basic grammar and a brief dictionary of the Mpongwe language (In English) Orthography. Etymology. Paradigm of Regular Verb. List of Adverbs. Syntax. Salutations. Adieus. Elision and Change of Vowels. Ewiria — Dark Sayings. General Remarks. Vocabulary of the Mpongwe Language.
Berlin: Kommisionsverlag von Georg Reimer, 1905. — 245 p. Wolf R. Grammar of the King language (in German) Kinga is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Magoma is ethnically distinct, and mutual intelligibility with the Magoma variety is low. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Einleitung. Lautlehre. Wortlehre. Satzlehre. Texte mit deutschen Übersetzungen. Wörterverzeichnis Kinga-Deutsch....
Witwatersrand University Press, 1952. — 251 p. — (Bantu Grammatical Archives III). A Bantu language of the 'Tekla' sub-group of the Nguni group of the Sousoutheasternne, spoken in the British Colony of Swaziland and the Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa. Ziervogel’s work, titled “A Grammar of Swazi (siSwati),” provides valuable insights into the structure and...
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