Bantu Languages

The Bantu languages extend in a semi-circle from Nigeria in the west along eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) to Namibia and South Africa. One of the most widely known Bantu languages is Swahili, especially important because it is used as lingua franca in large parts of eastern Africa.

Studybooks for important Bantu Languages

–  Shona

–  Swahili

Grammars / Grammatical Analyses / Grammatical Sketches

Assibi A. Amidu: Argument and Predicate Relations in Kiswahili. A New Analysis of Transitiveness in Bantu

Assibi A. Amidu: Reflexives and Reflexivization in Kiswahili Grammar

Gratien Atindogbé: Bankon (A 40) – Eléments de phonologie, morphologie et tonologie

Jean A. Blanchon / Dénis Creissels (eds.): Issues in Bantu Tonology

Jelle Cammenga: Phonology and Morphology of Ekegusii

Jelle Cammenga: Igikuria Phonology and Morphology. A Bantu Language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania

Axel Fleisch: Lucazi Grammar – A Morphosemantic Analysis

Riikka Halme: A Tonal Grammar of Kwanyama

Lotta Harjula: The Ha Language of Tanzania. Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary

Clement Maganga / Thilo C. Schadeberg: Kinyamwezi – Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: A Grammatical Sketch of Rugciriku

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig / Lutz Marten / Jekura U. Kavari: A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (Otjiherero)

Maarten Mous: A Grammatical Sketch of Mbugwe. Bantu F34, Tanzania

Gaston Nanfah: Analyse contrastive des parlers Yemba du département de la Menoua de l’Ouest-Cameroun

L.T. Rubongoya: A Modern Runyoro-Rutooro Grammar

Thilo C. Schadeberg: A Sketch of Umbundu

Thilo C. Schadeberg / Francisco Ussene Mucanheia: Ekoti. The Maka or Swahili Language of Angoche

Livingstone Walusimbi: Relative Clauses in Luganda

Dictionaries

Edwin Ardener / Bruce Connell: Mòkpè (Bakweri) – English Dictionary

Robert Botne: A Lega and English Dictionary – With an Index to Proto-Bantu Roots

Robert Botne / Andrew Kulemeka: A Learner’s Chichewa and English Dictionary

Bernd Heine / Karsten Legère: Swahili Plants. An Ethnobotanical Survey

Hildegard Höftmann / Irmtraud Herms: Wörterbuch Swahili-Deutsch

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig / Karl Peter Shiyaka-Mberema: A Dictionary of the Rumanyo Language. Rumanyo-English / English-Rumanyo. Including a Grammatical Sketch

Bompeti Ngila: Expérience végétale bolia (République Démocratique du Congo). Catégorisation, utilisation et dénomination des plantes

Language History / Language Reconstruction

Otto Dempwolff: Induktiver Aufbau des Urbantu

Derek Nurse: Inheritance, Contact, and Change in Two East African Languages (Daiso, Ilwana)

David L. Schoenbrun: The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary. Etymologies and Distributions

Bibliographies

Uschi Drolc / Caroline Frank / Franz Rottland: A Linguistic Bibliography of Uganda

Semantics

Birte Kathage: Konzeptualisierung von Landschaft im Mbukushu (Bantusprache in Nord-Namibia)

Hagen Neumüller: Zwei Elefanten: Untersuchung zu den Beziehungen zwischen Sprache und Kultur anhand ausgewählter Wortfelder des Kikuyu

Oral Literature

Thomas Geider: Die Figur des Oger in der traditionellen Literatur und Lebenswelt der Pokomo in Ost-Kenya

Jekura U. Kavari: The Form and Meaning of Otjiherero Praises

Christa Kilian-Hatz: Contes des Bakas (Sud-Est Cameroun). Le cycle de Waito

Reinhard Klein-Arendt: Bridging the Unbridgeable. Historical Traditions of the Ngoni of Northern Malawi

Gudrun Miehe / Kathrin Bromber / Said Khamis / Ralf Großerhode (eds.): Kala Shairi. German East Africa in Swahili Poems

Uta Reuster-Jahn: Erzählte Kultur und Erzählkultur bei den Mwera in Südost-Tansania

Articles in Collected Papers

Michael Bollig / Jan-Bart Gewald (eds.): People, Cattle and Land

Ines Fiedler / Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Brigitte Reineke (Hrsg.): Afrikanische Sprachen im Brennpunkt der Forschung. 12. Afrikanistentag, Berlin, 3. – 6. Oktober 1996

Thomas Geider / Raimund Kastenholz (Hrsg.): Sprachen und Sprachzeugnisse in Afrika – Eine Sammlung philologischer Beiträge, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig zum 60. Geburtstag zugeeignet

Wilfrid H.G. Haacke / Edward D. Elderkin (eds.): Namibian Languages – Reports and Papers

Robert K. Herbert (ed.): African Linguistics at the Crossroads – Papers from Kwaluseni, 1st World Congress of African Linguistics, Swaziland 18.–22. VII. 1994

Rainer Vossen / Angelika Mietzner / Antje Meissner (eds.): “Mehr als nur Worte ...”. Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland

Ngessimo M. Mutaka / Sammy B. Chumbow (eds.): Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A Fieldworker’s Tool for Deciphering the Stories Cameroonian Languages Have to Tell. In Honor of Professor Larry M. Hyman

Anthony Traill / Rainer Vossen / Megan Biesele (eds.): The Complete Linguist – Papers in Memory of Patrick J. Dickens

H. Ekkehard Wolff / Orin D. Gensler (eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics Leipzig 1997

Journals and book series with an Historical / Etymological Focus

SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika

SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika — Supplements