Notes on the Shambala and Some Allied Languages of East Africa (Classic Reprint)
Notes on the Shambala and Some Allied Languages of East Africa (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alice Werner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781333567323

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Excerpt from Notes on the Shambala and Some Allied Languages of East Africa Father Torrend, in his provisional arrangement of the Bantu languages, places Shambala, Bondei, Zegula and Nguru in a Shambala cluster belonging to the eastern half of his Main Group - see the Introduction to his Comparative Grammar of the south-african Bantu Lan guages (p. Xx). It is with these four languages that we are more particularly concerned, though we shall point out affinities with the surrounding groups as occasion arises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Matrilineal Peoples of Eastern Tanzania (Zaramo, Luguru, Kaguru, Ngulu)
The Matrilineal Peoples of Eastern Tanzania (Zaramo, Luguru, Kaguru, Ngulu)

Author: T. O. Beidelman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1315309599

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Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

A History of Women's Contributions to Linguistics
A History of Women's Contributions to Linguistics

Author: Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1036404501

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The author of this essay confesses that she has practised an exhumation exercise: an overwhelming work of research in which many names are hardly known (let alone recognised). The challenges of a work for which there is little precedent, and which was absolutely necessary, are numerous and varied: from the absence of documentation (or the difficulty of accessing it) to the over-representation of a large handful of linguists as opposed to the practical invisibility of the majority, to cite only the most obvious. Nevertheless, the result is an enjoyable and pedagogical read which documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women who have worked in language-related disciplines. The book explores Western and Eastern sources in order to do justice to all those women who make this book meaningful.