Bondarev, Dmitry (2005) 'In search of the Saharan inflectional verbal paradigms in Old Kanembu.' Afrika und Übersee: Special volume: Johannes Lukas (1901-1980) ‑ 25th anniversary of his death, 88. pp. 35-51.
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Abstract
The extensive Old Kanembu texts found in the Borno Qur’anic manuscripts provide, as far as we know, the earliest evidence for a sub-Saharan language and shed light on the history of the languages of the Saharan family. In this article, the form/meaning features of Old Kanembu inflectional TAM’s are compared with the corresponding Kanuri, Teda-Daza and Beria inflectional paradigms. The analysis, though preliminary, demonstrates that Old Kanembu is diachronically close to proto-Western Saharan, and also reflects proto-Saharan features retained in Eastern Saharan Beria which is located at the geographical extreme of the family at some distance from Western Kanuri/Kanembu.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa |
| ISSN: | 00020427 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2010 12:56 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/9741 |
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