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[ Niger-Congo » Benue-Congo » Bantoid » Bantu » Zone E ]

Bantu languages of Zone E

There are some 20 languages in Zone E, the largest of which are Kikuyu and Kamba.

Zone E languages are spoken in Kenya and northern Tanzania.

(Note that some languages previously classified in Zone E can now be found in Zone J.)

Quick jump to other Bantu zones:
AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE, FFF, GGG, HHH, JJJ, KKK, LLL, MMM, NNN, PPP, RRR, SSS

Distribution of Bantu E

General, comparative, miscellaneous back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975
The Tanzanian Language Survey. Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Gérard Philippson, 1991
Tons et accent dans les langues bantu d'Afrique orientale (PDF). Thèse d'état. Université René Descartes (Paris 5).
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/PDF/philippson/these.pdf

Gérard Philippson, 1998
Tone reduction vs metrical attraction in the evolution of Eastern Bantu tone systems (PDF). From: Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone. Edited by Larry M. Hyman and Charles W. Kisseberth. CSLI Stanford University.
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/PDF/Philippson/Philippson_1998a.pdf

Chaga, West Kilimanjaro (E621) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kibosho, Kibosho.unn, Machame, Machame.unn, Siha, Siha.unn. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Josephat M. Rugemalira, 2007
The structure of the Bantu noun phrase (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 135-148.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Chaga, Central Kilimanjaro (E622) back to top »

A. Davey, Lioba Moshi, Ian Maddieson, 1982
Liquids in Chaga (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 54, p. 93-108.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No54/

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kimochi.unn, Lema.unn, Mamba.unn, Vunjo. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Chuka (E541) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Chuka. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Digo < South Mijikenda (E73) back to top »

Steve M. Nicolle, 2007
Textual functions of Chidigo demonstratives (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 159-171.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Steve Nicolle, 2007
Metarepresentational demonstratives in Digo (PDF). From: Interpreting utterances. Edited by R.A. Nielsen, N.A.A. Amfo & K. Borthen. Publ. by Novus.
semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mM2Y2JkM

Steve Nicolle, 2007
The grammaticalization of tense markers: a pragmatic reanalysis (PDF). Cahiers chronos, v. 17, p. 47-65.
semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jI3OTBhN

Mohamed Pakia, 2005
African traditional plant knowledge today: an ethnobotanical study of the Digo at the Kenya coast (PDF). Dissertation. University of Bayreuth.
opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2005/133/pdf/Pakia.pdf

Duruma < North Mijikenda (E72) back to top »

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

Embu (E52) back to top »

Hidetoshi Katakami, 1997
Personal names and modes of address among the Mbeere (PDF). African study monographs, v. 18, p. 203-212.
jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/root.htm

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Embu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Giryama < North Mijikenda (E72) back to top »

Florence Deed, 1964
Giryama wordlist (5,000 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Erez Volk, 2007
High, low and in between: Giryama tonology (PDF). MA thesis. Tel-Aviv University.
www.tau.ac.il/~erezvolk/

Gweno (E65) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Gweno. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Gérard Philippson, Derek Nurse, 2000
Gweno, a little known language of northern Tanzania (PDF). From: Lugha za Tanzania/Languages of Tanzania. Edited by Kulikoyela K. Kahigi, Yared M. Kihore and Maarten Mous. CNWS Publications.
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/PDF/Philippson/Philippson_2000.pdf

Kahe (E64) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kahe.unn. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Kamba (E55) back to top »

Charles William Hobley, 1910
Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African tribes (PDF). Cambridge.
www.archive.org/details/ethnologyofakamb00hobluoft

Gerhard Lindblom, 1920
The Akamba in British Central Africa: an ethnographical monograph (PDF). Second edition. Uppsala.
www.archive.org/details/akambainbritishe00linduoft

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kamba_kitu, Kamba_mach. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

G. de Pauw, P.W. Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, 2007
Automatic diacritic restoration for resource-scarce languages (PDF). From: Text, speech and dialogue (proceedings of the 10th international TSD conference). Edited by V. Matousek and P. Mautner. Julius Springer-Verlag.
aflat.org/?q=node/184

Kikuyu (E51) back to top »

Wikipedia in Kikuyu.
ki.wikipedia.org

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

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kikuyu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

G. de Pauw, P.W. Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, 2007
Automatic diacritic restoration for resource-scarce languages (PDF). From: Text, speech and dialogue (proceedings of the 10th international TSD conference). Edited by V. Matousek and P. Mautner. Julius Springer-Verlag.
aflat.org/?q=node/184

Florian Schwarz, 2003
Focus marking in Kikuyu (PDF). ZAS papers in linguistics, v. 30, p. 41-118.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/papers/zaspil/articles/ZASPiL30.pdf (whole issue)

Florian Schwarz, 2006
Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu (PDF). Condensed version of MA thesis. University of Massachusetts.
people.umass.edu/florian/exsitufoc.pdf

Michael Maina Wanjeri, 2006
Language and gender: male domination among the Kikuyu of Kenya, East Africa (PDF). Undergraduate essay. Karlstad University, Sweden.
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-272

Rombo (E623) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Keni.unn, Kiseri, Kiseri.uu, Mkuu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Rwa, Rwo, Meru < West Kilimanjaro (E621) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Meru, Meruimenti, Merutig. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Sonjo, Temi (E46) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Sonjo. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Taita (E74) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Dawida. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Tharaka (E54) back to top »

Klaus Abels, Peter Muriungi, 2007
The focus particle in Kîîtharaka (PDF). From: ZAS papers in linguistics, v. 46, p. 1-20.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Leston Buell, 2007
Semantic and formal locatives: implications for the Bantu locative inversion typology (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 105-120.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Kithaka wa Mberia, 2002
Nasal consonant processes in Kitharaka (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 11 (2), p. 156-166.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Tharaka. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html


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