-
universally ⟨p̪ b̪⟩
rather than the ad hoc
letters ⟨ȹ ȸ⟩ once
found in
Bantuist literature.
Other taps can be
written as extra-short
plosives or laterals...
- para-IPA letters,
superscript variants of
Sinological ⟨ȡ ȴ ȵ ȶ⟩, of the
Bantuist labio-dental
plosives ⟨ȹ⟩ and ⟨ȸ⟩, and of
central semivowels ⟨ɉ⟩, ⟨ɥ̶⟩...
- In linguistics, the term
nominal refers to a
category used to
group together nouns and
adjectives based on
shared properties. The
motivation for nominal...
-
languages which had
partly lost
original features still found in Bantu. The
Bantuist Meinhof made a
major distinction between Bantu and a 'Semi-Bantu' group...
-
split in two
depending on the
reflexes of proto-Bantu tone patterns: many
Bantuists group together parts of
zones A
through D (the
extent depending on the...
-
lateral retroflex Lepsius (1855) ǀ ǀ́ ǀ̣ ǀǀ IPA (1921) ʇ ʞa ʗ ʖ Doke (1926) 🡣 ψ
Beach (1938) ʘ 𝼋
Bantuist pc c v ç tc qc b q x IPA (1989) ʘ ǀ ǂ ǃ ǁ 𝼊...
- system. The
expansion reached South Africa,
probably as
early as 300 CE.
Bantuists believe that the
Bantu expansion most
likely began on the
highlands between...
- the Niger–Congo family,
rather than as an
independent family as many
Bantuists had maintained. Greenberg's
classification rested largely in evaluating...
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peculiarities and,
except for -na, they do not end with the
typical vowel,
Bantuists consider them
verbs because they may be used with
subjectival concords...
-
close vowels i and u (sometimes
called "superclose" or "first-degree" by
Bantuists)[citation needed] are very high (with
advanced tongue root) and are better...
