Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster

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natural language processing

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paper

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GilRébSimKoe

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PER

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It is shown how past lexicostatistic efforts eventually led to lexically-driven phylogenetic classifications of the Bantu languages. As a new case study, 95 North-West and West Bantu language varieties are sampled across geographical space, with a focus on the wider Lower Congo region. This leads to the discovery of a discrete clade within West-Coastal Bantu, which we term the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), a disparate continuum of closely related Bantu languages. Both a branching tree and a continuum model are called in to ‘ define’ the true nature of the KLC, and pre-historical implications are drawn from this.

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