Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact
| Autor: | Brigitte Pakendorf, Bonny Sands, Koen Bostoen, Hilde Gunnink |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Copying media_common.quotation_subject Prestige 05 social sciences Immigration Bantu languages 06 humanities and the arts 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Genealogy Prehistory Geography Molecular anthropology Khoisan languages 0602 languages and literature Ethnology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociocultural evolution media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language Dynamics and Change. 7:1-46 |
| ISSN: | 2210-5832 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/22105832-00701002 |
| Popis: | Click consonants are one of the hallmarks of “Khoisan” languages of southern Africa. They are also found in some Bantu languages, where they are usually assumed to have been copied from Khoisan languages. We review the southern African Bantu languages with clicks and discuss in what way they may have obtained these unusual consonants. We draw on both linguistic data and genetic results to gain insights into the sociocultural processes that may have played a role in the prehistoric contact. Our results show that the copying of clicks accompanied large-scale inmarriage of Khoisan women into Bantu-speaking communities and took place in situations where the Khoisan communities may have had relatively high prestige. In the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier region, these events must have occurred at an early stage of the Bantu immigration, possibly because small groups of food producers entering a new territory were dependent on the autochthonous communities for local knowledge. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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