Preserving and innovating indigenous languages is crucial for maintaining cultural heritage
and facilitating community development in this digital age. Understanding the digital …

In this paper we present a new, lexicon-based phylogeny of 34 Southern Bantu languages,
and combine it with previous insights from linguistics, archaeology, and genetics to study the …

A precolonial language contact event between languages in the Nguni group of the Bantu
family and extinct undocumented languages in the Khoekhoe branch of the Khoe family left …

Tjhauba, spoken in northwestern Botswana, is a regional variety of the Bantu language
Kgalagadi. Tjhauba exhibits a number of striking linguistic differences with respect to other …

This chapter studies the early population history of southern Africa with linguistics as the
primary vantage point. It is tied to the Kalahari Basin area (KBA)-a linguistic convergence …

Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa are known to have been in contact with various
“Khoisan” languages. This has resulted in the adoption of clicks in various Bantu languages …