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

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 …

Several regional varieties of Coloured Afrikaans in the Northern Cape retain lexical items in
the aftermath of shift from Khoekhoe-branch languages, predominantly Nama and† Kora …

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 …

In southern Africa, contact with the typologically and genealogically diverse Khoisan
languages has resulted in various changes in Bantu languages. The most salient and well …

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 second edition of The Bantu Languages consists of two parts. Part 1 contains general
chapters that provide an overview of the state of the art in the study of the sound systems …