AFRICAN LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY AND THE NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY

The linguistic prehistory of Nubia

Evidence from historical linguistics, philology, archaeology, and, more recently, genetics enables u

The Linguistic Prehistory of Southern Africa: Bush, Kwadi, Hottentot, and Bantu Linguistic Relationships

Opening Paragraph The languages dealt with in this paper are Bush ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’, Kwadi, Ho

The lexical distribution of labial-velar stops is a window into the linguistic prehistory of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa

International audience Using a very large lexical database and generalized additive m

The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops as a window on the linguistic prehistory of northern sub-Saharan Africa

International audience Cross-linguistically, labial-velar stops are rather rare, but

Malcolm Guthrie and the Reconstruction of Bantu Prehistory

As to the scientific method,… it consist in the careful and often laborious classification of facts,

An Analysis of the Harari Vocabulary