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The noun class system of Bwala, an undocumented Teke language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z) Ghent University
This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Genealogically speaking, Bwala belongs to the Kasai-Ngounie (Extended) subclade, one of the major monophyletic groups within West-Coastal Bantu. Bwala has seven singular classes (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 14, 15) and five plural classes (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) which form ...
Bantu applicative constructions Ghent University
This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of “applicative” when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger Ghent University
Dans cet article, nous évaluons, par la méthode comparative, la validité généalogique du bantu de la côte occidentale (WCB, West-Coastal Bantu) en tant que sous‑groupe principal de la famille bantu. Tout en nous basant sur 66 séries de cognats, nous démontrons que les langues classifiées comme WCB selon les méthodes quantitatives lexicales partagent au moins une innovation phonologique : la fusion des occlusives vélaires *g et *k du proto‑bantu, ...
On the origins of the ergative marker wã in the Viceitic languages of the Chibchan family Ghent University
Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess : identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages Ghent University
In this paper we deal with the identification, geography and internal phylogeny of Bantu B50-80 languages. According to lexicostatistical and lexicon-based phylogenetic studies, these languages belong to the West-Coastal branch of the Bantu family along with the Kikongo Language Cluster. First, we present an updated list of nearly 100 language varieties falling into Guthrie's B50-80 groups along with corresponding updated geographical coordinate ...