10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NILO-SAHARAN»
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Nilo-Saharan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Nilo-Saharan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kabba: a
Nilo-
Saharan language of the Central African Republic
Basic clause structures are illustrated and discussed in chapter seven, which includes declarative, interrogative, negative, imperative and exclamatory clauses.
2
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
Table 1 Nilo-Saharan subgroups Greenberg, 1955 Greenberg, 1963, 1971
Current nomenclature Songhai isolate Songhai Songai Central Saharan isolate
Saharan Saharan Maban isolate Maban Maban Mimi isolate Mimi Mimi Fur
isolate Fur ...
3
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past
The Nilo-Saharan languages stretch from Tanzania to Mauritania, and isolated
pockets of speakers are found in Upper Egypt. Nilo-Saharan has the distinction of
being the youngest of the world's language phyla to be identified; prior to ...
4
Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical ...
The Nilo- Saharan language family provides the link. The Nilo-Saharan
languages extend today, in a widespread remnant distribution, from the bend of
the Niger in the west to the eastern side of the Middle Nile Basin in the east. They
are ...
5
History and the Testimony of Language
e linguistic evidence and arguments for nilo-saharan history are extensive and
complex, and the history itself was long and immensely varied, and so only a
simplified sampling of the relevant data can be presented here. in the word
histories ...
6
The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns
CHRISTOPHER EHRET Over fifteen years have passed since Sutton first
proposed to a conference at the University of California at Los Angeles that Nilo-
Saharan-speaking peoples may have been the makers of what he called the '
Aquatic ...
Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, 2014
7
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: He-N
Both of these features are relatively rare in Nilo-Saharan and seem to be
innovations in the core family. The occurrences in K. are summarized below (
Bender 1989:27, 29): 3rd pers. sg.: gender Twampa Komo Opuuo Kwama Gule
masc. har ...
8
A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification
The Nilo-Saharan Family (Greenberg 1963) 3.4.2 Present Status of Nilo-Saharan
Classification There have been several developments in Nilo-Saharan
classification since Greenberg's (1963, 1971) pioneering work, the most
important of ...
9
Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction
Two systems are relatively common today among Nilo-Saharan societies,
Hawaiian and Descriptive (or 'Sudanic'). Iroquois systems exist less commonly,
but occur in languages widely separated geographically and relatively distantly
related ...
Nicholas J. Allen, Hilary Callan, Robin Dunbar, 2011
10
The Handbook of Linguistics
Nilo-Saharan, as proposed by Greenberg (1963), has proven to be more
controversial than either Afroasiatic or Niger-Congo, although the most recent
survey of the Nilo-Saharan languages (Bender 1997) is positive. The internal
structure of ...
Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, 2008
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NILO-SAHARAN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Nilo-Saharan is used in the context of the following news items.
Endangered Language Alliance
... Otomanguean languages of Mexico to the Nilo-Saharan languages of Sudan and everywhere between. Religious liturgies, native-language ... «Brooklyn Rail, Apr 15»
These Amazing Maps Show the True Diversity of Africa
... Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan language families. The map below shows 50 of the most commonly spoken, ranging from Bantu to Songha, ... «Mic, Feb 15»
Bears stand united
Now there are more than 450 students within Omaha Public Schools whose families speak Nuer, Dinka or another Nilo-Saharan language in ... «Omaha World-Herald, Feb 15»
Museveni: Without love for Uganda, we are flying blind
ii) the Nilo-Saharan group of languages (Nilotic, Cushitic, etc.), iii) the Afro-Asiatic (Arabic, Amhara, Tigrinya, etc.) and iv) the small Khoisan ... «The Observer, Feb 15»
Tanzania hosts Afro-Asian festival
... Tanzania – Recently, I attended one of the biggest cultural events where four distinct cultures in Africa: Bantu, Khoisan, Nilo-Saharan and the ... «East African Business Week, Oct 14»
On languages and sorghum diversity! Is there a link?
They identified three major sorghum populations: a Central population co-distributed with the Nilo-Saharan language family; a Southern ... «Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research, Sep 14»
There is no Kurdish Nation
In the same way, the ethnic origin of today's Sudanese is Kushitic (Kushites being a branch of the Hamitic nations) or Nilo-Saharan; Sudan's ... «Mareeg Media, Sep 14»
Be strong, Museveni tells African gov'ts
These are: the Niger–Congo group of languages (including the Bantu languages and the Kwa group of languages); the Nilo-Saharan group of ... «New Vision, Mar 14»
Celebrating Netizens Who Blog in Nigerian Pidgin English
... is a microcosm of Africa as a whole, encompassing three major African languages families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger–Congo. «Global Voices Online, Feb 14»
TTB outlines tourism growth hurdles in southern regions
... the Khoisan language (Hadzabe tribe), the Nilo-Saharan language (Nilotic Datoga tribe), and the Afro-Asiatic Language (Cushitic speaking ... «IPPmedia, Jul 13»
