- Date | 16 February 2024
- Location | Leiden
Presentation by Maarten Mous: Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa for the Descriptive Linguistics Seminars by LUCL.
Abstract: As part of our Linguistic history of East Africa LHEAf.org project we (mainly Nina van der Vlugt and me) look into the loans from Cushitic languages and proto-languages into the various groups of Bantu languages in East Africa. We hope to establish at which level of the linguistic tree of EA Bantu which lexical transfers took place and which ones are horizontal spreads within Bantu. We aim at understanding the spread of Bantu languages in East Africa and the nature of the contact with Cushitic people. We present the challenges that we encounter in the hope of your advice on how to continue. Work in progress, I hope.
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