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Some Nominal Stems for "Canoe" in Bantu Languages.
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Bulkens, Annelies – 1997
An analysis of terminology for "canoe" in Bantu languages first gives some background information on early wooden canoes in Subsaharan Africa, then examines the origins of nominal stems for "canoe" in those languages. It is noted that a nominal stem identified early in the history of Bantu comparative linguistics is found in about 160 of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics