The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic
event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and …

Recent publications in historical linguistics tend to express a near certainty about the
structure of the Bantu language family and explicitly draw on archaeological and genetic …

An important set of sound changes affected the South Bantu languages through the impact
of front vowels on following consonants, most notably under the form of the class 5 nominal …

This article focuses on languages of the Kwilu-Ngounie subbranch within a branch of the
Bantu language family known as West-Coastal Bantu. Within Kwilu-Ngounie, B70 and B80 …

We employ a cluster approach to explore the comparative semantic maps of several markers
of modal possibility–the “potential” prefix nga‑and expressions meaning, roughly,'know how …

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 …

The syntactic features and emotional impacts of interjections in Xitsonga have been largely
overlooked in existing literature. This article aims to close this gap by exploring these …

Lexedata is a collection of tools to support the editing process of comparative lexical data.
Wordlists are a comparatively easily collected type of language documentation that is …

Nicknames are common in African societies. In Swati families, the use of nicknames is
widespread and almost every member of a family possesses one. The nicknames are given …

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 …