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On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar

This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world's biggest phylum, it is still Africa's biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the p...

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Main Authors: Bostoen, Koen, Schryver, Gilles-Maurice de, Guérois, Rozenn, Pacchiarotti, Sara
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Published: Language Science Press 2023
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