Download or read book Africa s Endangered Languages written by Jason Kandybowicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the endangered languages of Africa from both documentary and theoretical perspectives, highlighting the threats of extinction many of them face and the challenges and implications each bring to bear on linguistic theory. It focuses on the symbiosis between documentary and theoretical methodologies, and its consequences for the preservation of endangered languages, both in the African context and more broadly.

Download or read book Nation of Outlaws State of Violence written by Meredith Terretta and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon, as well as oral sources, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence chronicles the spread of the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalist movement from the late 1940s into the first postcolonial decade. It shows how, in the French and British Cameroon territories administered as UN Trusteeships after the Second World War, notions of international human rights, the promise of Third World independence, Pan-African federation, and national citizenship blended with local political and spiritual practices that resurfaced as the period of European rule came to a close. After French and British administrators banned the party in the mid-1950s, UPC nationalists adopted violence as a revolutionary strategy. In the 1960s, the nationalist vision disintegrated. The postcolonial regime labeled UPC nationalists “outlaws” and rounded them up for imprisonment or execution as the state shifted to single-party rule in 1966. Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence traces the connection between local and transregional politics in the age of Africa’s decolonization and the early decades of the Cold War. Rather than stop at official independence as most conventional histories of African nationalist movements do, this book considers postindependence events as crucial to the history of Cameroonian nationalism and to an understanding of the postcolonial government that came to power on 1 January 1960. While the history of the UPC is a story that ends with the party’s failure to gain access to political power with independence, it is also a story of the postcolonial state’s failure to become a nation.

Download or read book Cameroon written by Ben West and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly updated edition of the most in-depth guide available to Cameroon, a country home to ancient tribal kingdoms, colorful trading towns, 'pygmy' hunting camps, and endangered lowland gorillas.

Download or read book A Grammar of Eton written by Mark L.O. Van de Velde and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.

Download or read book A Comparative Study of Bantu Noun Classes written by Jouni F. Maho and published by ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Grammar of Akoose written by Robert Hedinger and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to describe the grammatical structure of Akoose, also known as Bakossi, one of the north-western most narrow-Bantu languages of Cameroon. The book is aimed at both linguists with an interest in African and in particular Bantu languages as well as a local audience interested in their own language.

Download or read book A grammar of the Isubu tongue written by Alfred J. S. Saker and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Bantu Child Speech Data Tells Us about the Controversial Semantics of Bantu Noun Class Systems written by Daniel Franck Idiata and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bantu Historical Linguistics written by Jean Marie Hombert and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection treats classificatory, historical, and comparative aspects of Bantu languages.

Download or read book Swahili and Sabaki written by Derek Nurse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to Sabaki and to other Bantu languages, and some data on contemporary Sabaki languages. Data sets, appendices, maps, and figures present essential information on phonology, lexical makeup, and tense/aspect morphology. The final chapter is a synthesis describing the linguistic and historical relationship of the Sabaki dialects to each other and to hypothetical proto-stages.

Download or read book A Grammar of the Kikuyu Language British East Africa written by A. Wallace McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tosolola Na Ling la written by Eyamba G. Bokamba and published by National African Language Resource Center. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide de conversation anglais written by Carine Girac-Marinier and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ouvrage idéal pour comprendre, s'exprimer et s'organiser facilement dans toutes les situations du voyage. L'ouvrage se compose de trois parties : 1) Une introduction aux bases de la langue : Une grammaire essentielle et conviviale met en avant les points communs entre le français et l'anglais. 2) Un "phrasebook" de 1 500 phrases et expressions indispensables classées par thème : Ce "phrasebook" présente les différents thèmes abordés (communiquer - organiser son séjour - se déplacer - se loger - à table - en ville - loisirs en plein air - shopping - urgences) par fiche d'une page ou d'une double-page. De très riches informations pratiques et culturelles sont données dans les pages d'ouverture de chaque thème et dans de très nombreux encadrés. Chaque phrase contient un mot-clé en français permettant de faciliter sa recherche. La traduction est accompagnée d'une transcription phonétique simplifiée. 3) Deux dictionnaires de 5 000 mots : les dictionnaires français-anglais, anglais-français contiennent les mots les plus fréquents ainsi que les mots utiles en voyage.