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[ Afroasiatic » Chadic » West Chadic ]

West Chadic languages

There are some 60-80 West Chadic languages, incl. Hausa, all of which are spoken west of Lake Chad in Nigeria and Niger.

General, comparative, miscellaneous back to top »

Bernard Caron, 2007
Condition, topic and focus in African languages: why conditionals are not topics (PDF). From: ZAS papers in linguistics, v. 46, p. 69-82.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, Malte Zimmermann, 2006
Subject focus in West African languages (DOC). Paper presented at the international conference on information structure between linguistic theory and empirical methods (SFB 632), in Potsdam, Germany, June 2006.
www2.hu-berlin.de/gur_und_kwa_fokus

Russell G. Schuh, 1977
West Chadic verb classes (PDF). From: Papers in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Paul Newman & Roxana Ma Newman. Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC).
hdl.handle.net/1887/468

Russell G. Schuh, 2002
Palatalization in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WC_palatalization.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2002
The locus of pluractional reduplication in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WC_redup.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
A comparative study of West Chadic verb suffixes (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/chadic_affixes.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Yobe State, Nigeria, as a linguistic area (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/BLS_05_schuh_full.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
The totality extension and focus in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/Berlin_2005.pdf

Olga Stolbova
West Chadic etymology.
starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config

Bade < Bade-Ngizim languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The nominal and verbal morphology of Western Bade (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WB_morphology.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The linguistic influence of Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kanuri_Bade_Ngizim.pdf

Bole < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Maher Awad, 1994
The semantic contribution of complementizers and complementation type: the case of Bolanci "na" (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED375629)

Alkaji Maina Gimba, 2000
Bole verb morphology. Dissertation. Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole/bole_papers.html#Gimba%20dissertation

Alkaji Maina Gimba, Madu Bah, Malam Baba Ali
Bole-English-Hausa dictionary.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
The metrics of a Bole song style, kona (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kona_Metrics.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
Sources of gemination and gemination as a morpheme in Bole (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Bole_gemination.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
Substantive and anaphoric 'thing' in Bole, with remarks on Hausa abu/abin (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/THING_WP.pdf

Russell G. Schuh
Draft chapters and sections for a forthcoming (2005) reference grammar of Bole. Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole/bole_papers.html

Dyarim, Dyarum (< Zeem) < Barawa languages back to top »

Roger M. Blench
The Dyarim language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm

Hausa < Hausa-Gwandara languages back to top »

See separate page for Hausa.

Karekare < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003 (rev. 2005)
"Shooting through the nose in Karekare" (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/karekare_hn.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Karekare verbal system (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/karekare_Vsystem.pdf

Kholok, Widala < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Kupto < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Kwami < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1994
The monologue of the dove: reflections on life and death in an oral tradition of the Kwami people in northern Nigeria (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 4, p. 99-111.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3578/

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Mwaghavul, Sura, Mupun < Sura-Goemai-Angas languages back to top »

C. Chanard
Mwaghavul - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Zygmunt Frajzyngier, 1991
A man and a woman, or gender marking in a nominal system (PDF). From: Actes du quatrième colloque Méga-Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/34248.pdf

Ngamo < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
'-ish' reduplication in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/gudi_ish_reduplication.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2004
Ngamo genitives (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ngamo_genitives.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
The Great Ngamo Tone Shift (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/GNTS.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Degemination, compensatory lengthening, and gemination in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). UCLA working papers in linguistics, n. 11, p. 1-11.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl11/papers/Schuh_Phono6.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Internal reconstruction of the totality exntension *t in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/Ngamo_int_recon.pdf

Ngas, Angas < Sura-Goemai-Angas languages back to top »

C. Chanard
Angas - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Ngizim < Bade-Ngizim languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The linguistic influence of Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kanuri_Bade_Ngizim.pdf

Pa'a < North Bauchi languages back to top »

Margaret G. Skinner, 1977
Gender in Pa'a (PDF). From: Papers in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Paul Newman & Roxana Ma Newman. Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC).
hdl.handle.net/1887/468

Piya < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Ron languages back to top »

Roger M. Blench
Why reconstructing Proto-Ron is so problematic (PDF). From: Topics in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Ekkehard Wolff. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm

Tangale < Tangale languages back to top »

Herrmann Jungraithmayr, 1995
Erosive Prozesse in der Tangale-Sprache (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 5, p. 215-223.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3566/

Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, 1996
"Terraces" and "terraced farms" in the languages of the Tangale-Waja Uplands (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 8, p. 113-125.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3572/

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf


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