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| | Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed to link Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg; but his suggestion was largely ignored. | | | s-m "name" (Ehret: *sŭm / *sĭm), attested in Semitic (*sm), Berber (ism), Chadic (eg Hausa suna), Cushitic, and Omotic (though the Berber form, ism, and the Omotic form, sunts, are sometimes argued to be Semitic loanwords.) The Egyptian smi "report, announce" may also be cognate. | | | Paul Newman (1980) groups Berber with Chadic and Egyptian with Semitic, while questioning the inclusion of Omotic; |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| | 1 The languages, including dialectal varieties, thoroughly investigated at the present state of the research are 10, all of the Indo European family, in particular of the Slavic, Germanic and Romance families. | | | Furthermore, these vowels appear to escape any attempt to establish regular sound correspondences between these languages when applying the comparative method in order to reconstruct the common proto-forms of what obviously appear to be otherwise cognate words. | | | As a consequence, linguistic information is preferably organized on the vertical axis. |
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http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp/events/Abstracts_Word.html
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| | Web resources for Chadic languages |
| | Marghi sound files at the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. | | | Sound files hosted at the UCLA Phonetics Lab. | | | The Dyarum [Kaiwari] people and their language (PDF). |
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http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/webresources/chadic.html
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| | Language Expertise: Atlantic, Bantu, Berber, Chadic, Kwa, Moru-Madi, Nilotic | | | A Study on Development of Grammatical Morphems [sic!]. | | | Principal co-worker; the project was directed by Prof. |
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http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~afrika/pages/ifa/show.php?aid=85&page=1
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| | The sci.lang FAQ: 8 |
| | It has been claimed that URALIC and ALTAIC are related (as URAL-ALTAIC), but this idea is not widely accepted. | | | ARAWAKAN, TUCANOAN, TUPI-GUARANI (including Guarani, a national language of Paraguay), CARIBAN, ANDEAN (including Quechua and Aymara) | | | This is an incomplete list of some of the world's language families. |
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http://www.zompist.com/lang8.html
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| | Chadic languages |
| | The Chadic languages are a member of the Afroasiatic phylum, together with Semitic, Ancient Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic. | | | Apart from Hausa, only a few other Chadic languages of Nigeria have been well described. | | | Most Chadic languages are spoken by just a few hundred up to a few thousand people. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/chadic.htm
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| | Chad - Afro-Asiatic Languages |
| | Buduma-Kouri is spoken by two groups of lake people who intermarry despite some social differences. | | | Arabic also has been important because it is the language of Islam and of the Quran, its holy book. | | | Despite the presence of non-Chadic languages (such as Kenga, which is part of the Sara-Bongo-Baguirmi group), most Hajerai speak Chadic languages, such as Djongor, Dangaleat, Bidyo, Mogoum, Sokoro, Barain, and Saba. |
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http://countrystudies.us/chad/20.htm
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| | Chadic - definition of Chadic by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | West Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member | | | East Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chadic
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| | History Channel Search Results |
| | Actually, the Hamito-Semitic family has five equally independent branches or subfamilies: Semitic, Berber, Egyptian, Cushitic, and Chadic. | | | (The relationship of some or all of the Chadic languages to the family, however, is disputed by some scholars.) | | | Estimated at having about 170 million to 180 million speakers, the family is called Afro-Asiatic by some scholars because of its geographic distribution. |
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http://www.historychannel.com/encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ha014200.a
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| | Linguistics and Lanuage Links (Elizabeth J. Pyatt) |
| | Chadic is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic family whose other branches include Semitic, Berber and Egyptian. | | | Chadic Languages - Some basic information on Chadic including a family tree and some audio clips. | | | Bantu is a large language family of southern and Eastern Africa and includes prominent languages such as Swahili, Zulu and many others. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/e/j/ejp10/region/africa.html
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| | Language Classification |
| | None, however, are well known, nor are they spoken by any sizable number of people. | | | Many of the Pygmy groups found in Zaire and Cameroon are thought to be Khoisan peoples who have adopted their neighbors' Niger-Congo languages. | | | The Bantu languages were long thought to be an independent language family, partly because of the vast area in which they are spoken, the large number of languages that can be considered Bantu, and the large number of their speakers. |
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http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00329.html
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| | Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 23. |
| | Those who live among the Guta are ‘still trying’ and are said to speak a mixed language, with elements of iTunzu and iGuta. | | | The language groups in and around Benue-Plateau State. | | | The Luri language was first recorded in the Bauchi State survey of Campbell & Hoskison (1972). |
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http://www.ogmios.org/236.htm
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| | Melanie Green |
| | The (sometimes controversial) claim that Chadic belongs within the Afroasiatic has been established in particular on the basis of lexical and morphological similarities which point towards a common 'genetic unity' (Schuh 1982; Pawlak 1994 and references cited there). | | | The Chadic group has been subject to various classifications; the one assumed here is based on Newman's (1977) classification of the Chadic group as detailed in Barreteau and Newman (1978). | | | Hausa is without question the most widely spoken Chadic language; in fact Schuh (1982) describes it as coming second only to Arabic in terms of the number of native speakers on the African continent. |
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/melanieg/hausa.html
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| | Hausar Baka: In 1996, I began involvement in a project for using video to teach Hausa at the elementary and intermediate levels. | | | Because the Chadic languages are part of the larger Afroasiatic Phylum, I have sought to broaden my knowledge of the phylum by sitting in on classes at UCLA in | | | Comparative Chadic studies: Inspired by the projects above and the appearance of Paul Newman's definitive grammar of Hausa, The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar, (Yale University Press, 2000), I have been writing a number of papers, some potentially publishable, some speculative musings, on a variety of comparative Chadic topics. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/schuh/research.html
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| | A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap |
| | Grimes (1996:460) states, “Rozvi (Rozwi, Ruzwi, Chirozwi) speak Karanga dialect and do not have their own language. | | | A bilabial variant is attested in 13 languages, and in some cases, such as in the Mono dialect of Mid-Southern Banda, this variant is preferred. | | | As mentioned before, it is possibly attested in one Austronesian language. |
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http://journals.dartmouth.edu/webobjbin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/article/262?htmlAlways=yes
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| | Kim-Research |
| | Title: "Indefinite subject marking (alias 'Impersonals') in Chadic" | | | Title: "Internal linguistic relationship among the languages of the Mandara group (Central Chadic)" | | | Structure courses: Bantu and Benue-Congo languages, Hausa and some dozen of Chadic languages (West, Central, and East Chadic), Khoisan |
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http://email.eva.mpg.de/~kim/kim-research.html
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| | Afroasiatic languages - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Afroasiatic languages |
| | Hebrew was the language of the Jewish people in biblical times, and most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. | | | All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right. | | | Included among the Canaanite languages are Phoenician, Moabite, Ugaritic, and Hebrew Hebrew language, member of the Canaanite group of the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Afroasiatic+languages
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| | Ethnologue report for Chad |
| | This Mimi is different from the Mimi of Gaudefroy-Demombynes and the Mimi of Nachtigal (hitherto unidentified), which may be Maban (Doornbos and Bender 1983). | | | Dialects: Boyeldieu says it is not in the Bua group, but Chadic. | | | The Laka language is considered by some to be a dialect of Ngambay. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Chad
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| | Chadic Branch |
| | As you can see, the most populous language is Hausa, a West Chadic language spoken by up to 25 million people, of whom about 19 million live in Nigeria, 5 million in Niger, and 1 million in Cameroon, Togo, and Benin. | | | All Chadic languages are tonal which distinguishes them from other branches of the Afro-Asiatic family. | | | This rather sparse vowel system is similar to the vowel systems of the Berber and Semitic languages. |
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http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/july/chadic.html
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| | Chadic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 13:37, 2 April 2006. | | | The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa. | | | Newman, Paul (1977) 'Chadic classification and reconstructions.' Afroasiatic Linguistics 5, 1, 1–42. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadic_languages
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| | HOMEpeople10. Jnner 2001 12:32 Uhr-1- |
| | Language use in public events (LUPE): This project is concerned with language events in rallies, meetings, on which studies have been made during 1997 and 1998 local, state and federal government elections by questionnaire, unobtrusive observation, as well as analysis of printed and broadcast media. | | | Language Use in Local Government services (LULOGOS): Questionnaires sent to all LGA's of the Federal Republic in 1991, after new decree, creating states and LGA's. | | | This project has also been integrated into the new Africa Forschungskolleg (SFB/FK 560) at Bayreuth. |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/afrikanistik/Borno/people.html
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| | This is confirmed by comparative evidence from other Chadic languages, all of which also have a single morphological form used in the same environments as the Hausa subjunctives. | | | This paper outlines the phenomenon of "morphological palatalization", a process present in a number of Chadic languages, and speculates on morphological palatalization as a source of apparently anomalies involving palatalization in languages that do not now have productive morphological palatalization. | | | This has led to an assumption that initial reduplication is the norm and, tacitly, that is is probably a reconstructable feature for the family. |
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http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/downloadable_papers.html
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| | Decimal vs. Duodecimal, MATSUSHITA |
| | Chadic languages, generally, have decimal numeration with a liberal infusion of quinary trace. | | | All these languages were in the process of transition to decimal system of numeration according to Meek. | | | Why hd these languages adopted the duodecimal system beforehand? |
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http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~P_aflang/TEXTS/oct98/decimal.html
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| | Carillon |
| | He finds speakers of the African languages who also can speak English or French, and then attempts to discover the formal means of the language, such as types of phrases, sentences and words and the functions coded by those means. | | | The languages Frajzyngier studies have no written form, and some have only 5,000 to 10,000 speakers. | | | This summer, Frajzyngier will be visiting Bayreuth, Germany to conduct research with Dymitr Ibriszimow of the University of Bayreuth, the professor who nominated him for the Humboldt Research Award. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/Chancellor/Carillon/volume72/stories/get_page.pl?id=1
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| | Documenting and developing the endangered languages of Nigeria |
| | But not all the languages of Nigeria have been well described and developed to an extent that would allow them to be used for educational purposes. | | | In fact there are some Nigerian languages that are nearly extinct (e.g. | | | The following pages seek to show what needs to be done in order to at least document the endangered languages of Nigeria. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/doc&dev.htm
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| | HRELP - Birgit Hellwig |
| | She has been working on Chadic languages since 1998; her MA thesis focused on language contact between Chadic and Benue Congo languages; and her PhD thesis investigated in detail the grammatical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of how postural information is coded in one Chadic language (Goemai). | | | In 2003-4 she has also been a member of ELAP teaching staff on the Fieldmethods course. | | | Birgit Hellwig is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), where she is working on Goemai, a previously undescribed West Chadic language of Central Nigeria. |
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http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=bh
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| | Sonderforschungsbereich 632: Information structure - Projects |
| | Berlin: Hauptseminar held at the Institute for German Language and Literature, Humboldt University. | | | As tonal languages, the Chadic languages form an interesting subject for research into focus because a commonly used means for marking focus in indogermanic languages, namely intonational/ tonal marking, is not available in the same degree due to potential conflicts with lexical tone. | | | Leipzig: Concluding conference of the DFG research group "Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen der Kognitionswissenschaft". |
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http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/projects.php?project_id=7
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| | Colorado Research in Linguistics |
| | This thesis examines the reference systems of the Chadic language group, with the goal of providing a preliminary typology of deixis, anaphora and the relationship between subject coding and discourse functions. | | | This chapter demonstrates the problem of "definiteness" in Chadic grammars, the varied and imprecise functions attributed to various anaphoric markers, the anaphoric role of pronouns, and the patterns and points of interest that are open to examination in the Chadic languages. | | | The scope of this study includes eight Chadic languages: Hausa (Newman 2000), Miya (Schuh 1998) and Ron (Seibert 1997) from West Chadic, Gidar (Frajzyngier forthcoming), Hdi (Frajzyngier and Shay 2002) and Gude (Hoskison 1983) from Central Chadic, and East Dangla (Shay 1999) and Lele (Frajzyngier 2001) from East Chadic. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/CRIL/Volume17_Issue1/thesis_VanAntwerp.htm
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| | AfroRoman in Unicode |
| | Based on the Bantu alphabets we have been able to confirm we believe AfroRoman covers the vast majority of these languages. | | | (Based on the Chadic alphabets we have been able to confirm we believe AfroRoman covers the vast majority of these languages. | | | Both Unicode and non-Unicode versions of AfroRoman may be installed on your system (since they have different file and font names) and may even be used in the same files. |
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http://www.linguistsoftware.com/afrou.htm
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| | SIL Publications: 0883126192 |
| | The papers are organized into three sections to explain the linguistic features of Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon whose meaning can only be explained by taking into account domains larger than the sentence. | | | Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference, and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon. | | | The first section concentrates on how coherence is maintained in a text when the author introduces a local discontinuity. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_product.asp?isbn=0883126192
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| | SILEWP 2001-002 Summary |
| | We endeavored to obtain a complete sample of the languages in which the sound is attested in order to ensure the accuracy of our typological claims. | | | This paper documents the geographic and genetic distributions of the labial flap. | | | It is found in three of the four major African language families, but it likely cannot be traced back to the proto language of any of these families. |
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http://www.sil.org/silewp/2001/002
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| | Hamitic languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages. | | | Issues of language maintenance and education of aboriginal children in India: an interview with Ajit K. Mohanty, internationally acclaimed Indian psycholinguist.(Interview) | | | HAMITIC LANGUAGES [Hamitic languages] subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/I/IX1-H1amiticl.asp
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| | Hausa and other chadic languages: a lexical comparison between Hausa, Gùrùntùm, Zaar and Bubburè: UNESCO-CI |
| | Hausa and other chadic languages: a lexical comparison between Hausa, Gùrùntùm, Zaar and Bubburè: UNESCO-CI The Organization | | | Hausa and other chadic languages: a lexical comparison between Hausa, Gùrùntùm, Zaar and Bubburè | | | Closed > Closed > 13 ICT projects > Closed > Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing online > Africa > Bubbure > Hausa and other chadic languages: a lexical comparison between Hausa, Gùrùntùm, Zaar and Bubburè |
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http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14892&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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| | HRELP - Philip Jaggar |
| | His research has focussed primarily on the empirical description of Hausa but he has also worked on other Chadic languages. | | | He has worked with Dr Andrew Haruna (SOAS, Berlin) on Guruntum, a small and virtually unknown West Chadic-B language currently under threat from Hausa; Dr Haruna is a native speaker of Guruntum and is the only Nigerian linguist working on minority languages in North East Nigeria. | | | Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: The selected papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries. |
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http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=jaggar
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| | SILEWP 2002-002 Summary |
| | Based on the analysis of the word list, as well as the origin myths retold, it is suggested that the Mabire language be classified in the Dangla group of Eastern Chadic, along with Dangaleat (Dangla), and Migaama (Migama). | | | The last few speakers of Mabire, a Chadic language of central Chad, provide information on the decline of the Mabire community, the origins of their people and language, and word list data. | | | Keywords: Chad, Africa, Mabire language, Dangla, Dangaleat, Migaama, Chadic languages |
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http://www.sil.org/silewp/2002/002
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| | Web resources for Afroasiatic languages in Africa |
| | Les langues dans le monde ancien et moderne, v 1: les languages de l'Afrique subsaharienne. | | | There are some 250, maybe more, Afroasiatic (aka Afrasian, Erythraic, Lisramic, Hamito-Semitic) languages spoken in Africa. | | | The Afro-Asiatic languages: classification and reference list (PDF). |
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http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/webresources/afroasiatic.html
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| | SOAS: Professor Philip J Jaggar: SOAS: Staff |
| | Jaggar and H. Wolff), Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Selected Papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries., 338pp. | | | Professor of West African Linguistics; Associate Dean (Postgraduates), Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa | | | 'Some 'unexpected' form-meaning correspondences between Hausa (West Chadic-A) and Guruntum (West Chadic-B)--how do we explain them?', in ed(s) eds. |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/outreach/expert.cfm?navid=117&contactid=30
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| | CHADIC - LanguageServer - University of Graz |
| | Stolbova, Olga W.: Studies in Chadic Comparative Phonology | | | Newman, Paul (compil.): Hausa and the Chadic Language Family. |
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http://languageserver.uni-graz.at/ls/group?id=479
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| | On Chadic languages |
| | Wolf, E. "Grammatical categories of verb stems and the marking of mood, aktionsart and aspect in Chadic." Monographic journals of the Near East Afroasiatic Linguistics 6.161-209. | | | "Aspect and aspect-related categories in Chadic." The Chad Languages in the Hamitosemitic-Nigritic Border Area, 183-192. | | | "Mode, temps, aspect en tchadique." [Mood, tense, aspect in Chadic.] Nicole Tersis and Alain Kihm (eds.), Temps et aspects: actes du colloque CNRS Paris 24-25 octobre 1985. |
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http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/Chadic.html
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