BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...

In many languages across the world, speakers use intonation to focus on relevant information: ‘Father cooked the sauce’. Speakers may also use a specific sentence structure to mark focus: ‘It was ...

AFTER numerous and vexatious delays, the second volume of this monumental work has at last seen the light.It contains “an analysis and comparison of the phonology and word-roots and a comparative ...

The hunter-gatherer and pastoralist peoples of southern Africa who speak indigenous non-Bantu languages called Khoisan have intrigued researchers for a long time because their languages contain highly ...

The 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages (BANTU 6) will be held at the University of Helsinki in Finland on 20 – 22 June 2016 (Monday – Wednesday , followed by half-day workshops on the ...

The research team, led by node manager and principal investigator Prof Heather Brookes, published their results in the Journal of Child Language, a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects ...