The Bantu Languages

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Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Routledge, 2003 - Foreign Language Study - 708 pages

Providing descriptive and typological information about the Bantu languages of southern Africa, this volume brings together a set of expert contributors and is divided into two parts: linguistics areas, including phonology, morphology, syntax and historical linguistics, and secondly, the many hundreds of Bantu languages themselves.

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The Bantu Languages
Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson
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Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson
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About the author (2003)

Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Bantu Languages
Volume 4 of Routledge language family series
The Bantu Languages, Gérard Philippson
EditorsDerek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRoutledge, 2003
ISBN041541265X, 9780415412650
Length708 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Foreign Language Study / African Languages
Foreign Language Study / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
  
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