Namibian Languages

Reports and Papers

Edited by: Wilfrid H.G. Haacke, Edward D. Elderkin. With contributions by: L.-G. Andersson, Erdmann J.M. Baumbach, Patrick J. Dickens †, Eliphas Eiseb, David J. Fourie, Derek F. Gowlett, Wilfrid H.G. Haacke, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Levi Namaseb, Jan Winston Snyman †, Thomas Widlok. Series edited by: Wilfrid H.G. Haacke.

Series: NAS Namibian African Studies Volume 4

1997
451 pp.
1 folding map, 10 maps, 104 tables, 118 surveys, 1 graph
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
750 g
Paperback
€ 98.00

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CONTENTS

KHOESAAN LANGUAGES

Jan W. Snyman: A Preliminary Classification of the !Xuu and !Zu|’hoasi Dialects

Patrick Dickens: Relative Clauses in Ju|’hoan  [Ju/'hoan]

Thomas Widlock: Hai||om [Hai//om] Language Usage and Social Identity

Wilfrid Haacke / Eliphas Eiseb / Levi Namaseb: Internal and External Relations of Khoekhoe Dialects – a Preliminary Survey

BANTU LANGUAGES

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: A Dialectometrical Analysis of the Main Kavango Languages – Kwangali, Gciriku and Mbukushu

Derek F. Gowlett: Aspects of Yeyi Diachronic Phonology

L.-G. Andersson: Seyeyi revisited – Prospects for the Future of a Threatened Language

David J. Fourie: The Linguistic Position of Oshimbalanhu within the Wambo Group

E.J.M. Baumbach: Bantu Languages of the Eastern Caprivi

Under these links you will find publications of the contributors and descriptions of further Khoisan and Bantu languages of southern Africa:

Accompanying material:

• A Concise Grammar of Ju/'hoan [Ju|’hoan] (ISBN 978-3-89645-145-3)
• A Dictionary of the Rumanyo Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-601-4)
• A Grammar of Yeyi (ISBN 978-3-89645-549-9)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Rugciriku (Rumanyo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-542-0)
• English-Ju|’hoan – Ju|’hoan-English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-868-1)
• Issues in Bantu Tonology (ISBN 978-3-89645-033-3)
• Lucazi Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-038-8)
• Reference Grammar of Herero (Otjiherero) (ISBN 978-3-89645-602-1)
• The Tonology of Khoekhoe (Nama/Damara) (ISBN 978-3-89645-144-6)
• Towards Interdisciplinarity (ISBN 978-3-89645-886-5)

Cross-reference:

• Cultural Change in the Prehistory of Arid Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-092-0)
• Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels (ISBN 978-3-927620-25-4)
• Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-093-7)
• Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan (ISBN 978-3-89645-143-9)
• Linguistics across Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-510-9)
• Lone Tree – Scholarship in the Service of the Koon (ISBN 978-3-89645-227-6)
• Sprachen und Sprachzeugnisse in Afrika (ISBN 978-3-927620-95-7)
• The Complete Linguist (ISBN 978-3-927620-84-1)
• Tsotsitaal in South Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-086-9)

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