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Gerrit Jan
Dimmendaal (born 1955) is a
Dutch linguist and Africanist. His
research interests focused mainly on the Nilo-Saharan languages. He completed...
- and Blench, and Bender's Core Nilo-Saharan by
Dimmendaal and Blench. What
remains are
eight (
Dimmendaal) to
twelve (Bender)
constituent families of no...
- 200 Proto-Nilotic
lexical roots have been
reconstructed by
Dimmendaal (1988).
Dimmendaal reconstructs the
proto Nilotic consonants as follows: Comparison...
- The
Talodi and
Heiban languages are
thought to be
distantly related by
Dimmendaal,
though Glottolog 4.4 does not
accept the
unity of Talodi–Heiban pending...
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defence of Nilo-Saharan.
Dimmendaal,
Gerrit J. and
Angelika Jakobi. 2020.
Eastern Sudanic. In: Vossen,
Rainer and
Gerrit J.
Dimmendaal (eds.). 2020. The Oxford...
- been
either an Agaw
language or a non-Amharic
Semitic language,
while Dimmendaal (1989) says it "probably
belonged to Cu****ic" (as does Agaw), and Gamst...
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includes Gur,
Ubangian and the
various branches of
Adamawa as
primary nodes.
Dimmendaal (2008)
doubts that
Ubangian is a
subfamily of Niger–Congo at all, preferring...
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Greenberg (1963), and
later authorities concurred, but it was
questioned by
Dimmendaal (2008). The
Bantu expansion,
beginning around 1000 BC,
swept across much...
- 1963, but this
classification remains controversial.
Linguist Gerrit Dimmendaal (2008)
believes that for now it is best
considered an
independent language...
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Chali Yabus Dana–Opo Dana Opo [clade]
Bilugu Modin [clade] Pame
Kigile Dimmendaal (2008)
notes that
mounting grammatical evidence has made the Nilo-Saharan...
