Chapter 3 is about the sounds of Bantu languages. Many Bantu languages have relatively
simple segmental inventories. However, internal developments and external influences …

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents
grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main …

Peoples speaking so-called Khoisan languages—that is, indigenous languages of southern
Africa that do not belong to the Bantu family—are culturally and linguistically diverse. They …

This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe.
Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some …

Click consonants are one of the hallmarks of “Khoisan” languages of southern Africa. They
are also found in some Bantu languages, where they are usually assumed to have been …

Without diminishing the emotional trials and suffering that some PhD students go through,
writing this dissertation has been an incredibly fun experience. Working on a single topic, as …

Click consonants have proven to be a challenge to researchers over the years. This chapter
describes the various ways of transcribing them and various instrumental techniques for …

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long
shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with …

How do we define the limits of a linguistic area? Typologically rare features may spill out
beyond the bounds of an otherwise well-defined linguistic area. Rather than viewing the …

Abstract Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan
speakers has resulted in the adoption of clicks in various southern African Bantu languages …