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Bantu languages of Zone G
There are some 20-30 languages in Zone G, the largest of which are Swahili and Gogo.
Zone G languages are spoken over a wide area in eastern Africa, incl. southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. (This does not include the wide distribution of Swahili as a second language.)
(Note that materials relating to Swahili appear on a separate page.)
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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
Russell Gray, Simon Greenhill
Bantu basic vocabulary database: Asu, Basaa, Bemba, Bukusu, Kinyamwezi, Koyo. University of Auckland, New Zealand.
language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/bantu
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Bena. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Bondei1, Bondei2. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Premier site d'initiation au shimaore, avec grammaire, lexique, etc.
ylangue.free.fr
WebVerbix On-Line Conjugator for Comorian (Shingazidja).
www.verbix.com/languages/xml/Comorian_Shingazidja.html
Farida Cassimjee, Charles W. Kisseberth, 1997
Optimal Domains Theory and Bantu tonology: a case study from Isixhosa and Shingazidja (PDF). Rutgers Optimal Archive ROA-176.
roa.rutgers.edu/index.php3?id=188
Mohamed Ahmed Chamanga, Noël-Jacques Gueunier, 1977
Recherches sur l'instrumentalisation du comorien: problèmes de adaptation lexicale, d'après la version comorienne de la loi du 23 novembre 1974. Cahiers d'études africaines, v. 17, p. 213-239.
www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=cea_0008-0055_1977_num_17_66
El-Anrifou Abdou Mohamed
Shingazidja grammar notes, English-Shingazidja word list and Shingazidja-English word list.
www.chez.com/shingazidja/tableofcontents.htm
El-Anrifou Abdou Mohamed
Grammaire du shingazidja et lexique shingazidja-francais.
www.chez.com/shingazidja/tabledematieres.htm
Marie-Françoise Rombi
Maore texts and sound files hosted at the CRDO (Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral).
crdo.risc.cnrs.fr/exist/crdo/index.htm
Marie-Françoise Rombi
Ngazidja texts and sound files hosted at the CRDO (Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral).
crdo.risc.cnrs.fr/exist/crdo/index.htm
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Doe. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Engsh dictionary.
www.sheng.co.ke/engsh/kamusi.asp
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Hehe. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Malin Petzell, 2003
What is the function of the pre-prefix in Kagulu? (PDF). Paper presented at the langue.doc conference, held at Göteborg University.
hdl.handle.net/2077/24
Malin Petzell, 2004
LFG vs transformational theories: a comparison of certain phenomena in Bantu languages (PDF). Africa & Asia: Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures, v. 4, p. 151-162.
www.african.gu.se/aa/pdfs/aa04151.pdf
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kami. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kinga. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1969
Die Sippentabus der Kinga (PDF). From: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, v. 12, p. 34-41.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8793
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kisi. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kutu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Lutz Marten, 2003
Dynamic and pragmatic partial agreement in Luguru (PDF). From: Typologie des langues d'Afrique et universaux de la grammaire. Edited by P. Sauzet and A. Zribi-Hertz. L'Harmattan.
mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/luguru.pdf
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Luguru. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Scott Lewis, 2004
Mbugu/Ma'a project (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2004-001.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-001
Maarten Mous, 1996
Was there ever a southern Cushitic language (pre-) Ma'a? (PDF). From: Cushitic and Omotic languages. Edited by Catherine Griefenow-Mewis & Rainer Maria Voigt. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
hdl.handle.net/1887/2734
Scott Lewis, 2004
Mbugu/Ma'a project (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2004-001.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-001
Wilhelm H.I. Bleek, 1856
The languages of Mosambique: vocabularies of the dialects of Lourenzo Marques, Inhambane, Sofala, Tette, Sena, Quellimane, Mosambique, Cape Delgado, Anjoane, the Maravi, Mudasu etc. (PDF). Harrison & Sons.
books.google.com/books?id=1rQFAAAAQAAJ
Malin Petzell, 2002
A sketch of Kimwani, a minority language of Mozambique (PDF). Africa & Asia: Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures, v. 2, p. 88-110.
www.african.gu.se/aa/pdfs/aa02088.pdf
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1994
KiMwani at the southern fringe of KiSwahili (PDF). From: Mixed languages. Instituut voor Functioneel Onderzoel van Taal en Taalgebruik (IFOTT).
hdl.handle.net/1887/8828
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Ndamba. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Karsten Legère, 2003
Trilingual Ngh'wele-Swahili-English and Swahili-Ngh'wele-English wordlist (PDF) as a searchable database. Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University.
www.african.gu.se/research/nghwele.html (database)
www.african.gu.se/downloads/nghwele.pdf (download)
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kwere. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Nguungulu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Pangwa. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Lutz Marten, 2003
The dynamics of Bantu applied verbs: an analysis at the syntax-pragmatics interface (PDF). From: Actes du 3e congrès mondial de linguistique africaine. Edited by Kézié K. Lébikaza. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/applicatives.pdf
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Pogolo. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Sangu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Sambaa. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Johannes Fabian, 2001
Commenting Kalundi's comments: notes on the ethnography of translating the "Vocabulary of the town of Elisabethville". Journal of language and popular culture in Africa, v. 1, issue 3.
www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/jlpca/vol1/fabian.html
Johannes Fabian, 2002
The times of the "Vocabulaire": commentary on a conversation with Baba Ngoie Léon. Journal of language and popular culture in Africa, v. 2, issue 1.
www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/jlpca/vol2/fabian.html
Hussein Obeidat, Mwamba Kapanga, 1988
The behaviour of non-terms in Shaba Swahili: a relational approach (PDF). Kansas working papers in linguistics, v. 13, p. 191-204.
hdl.handle.net/1808/634
Vincent A. de Rooij, 2000
French discourse markers in Shaba Swahili conversations (PDF). International journal of bilingualism, v. 4, p. 447-469.
dare.uva.nl/en/record/87922
André Yav, Johannes Fabian, Kalundi Mango, 2001
Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville: history of Elisabethville from its beginnings to 1965. Archives of popular Swahili, v. 4,1. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/aps/vol4/vocabulaireshabaswahili.html
Sheng dictionary.
www.sheng.co.ke/kamusi/kamusi.asp
Mokaya Bosire, 2006
Hybrid languages: the case of Sheng (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html
Peter Githinji, 2006
Bazes and their shibbolets: lexical variation and Sheng speakers' identity in Nairobi (PDF). From: Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 443-472.
www.njas.helsinki.fi
Sarah Hillewaert, Pitta Joffe, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Sheng-English lexicon.
africanlanguages.com/kdp/sheng
Julius Jwan, Nathan Oyori Ogechi, 2004
Bilingual education for street children in Kenya: evidence from language mixing (PDF). Journal of language and learning, v. 2, p. 65-87.
www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/jllearn/2_2a/jwanogechi.htm
John Mugane, 2006
Necrolinguistics: the linguistically stranded (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html
Nathan Oyori Ogechi, 2005
On lexicalization in Sheng (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 14 (3), p. 334-355.
www.njas.helsinki.fi
See separate page for Swahili.
Karsten Legère, 2007
Vidunda (G38) as an endangered language? (PDF). Selected proceedings of the 37th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/37/index.html
Karsten Legère, S. Maganga, P. Mkwan'hembo, 2004
Vidunda people and their plant names (PDF). Africa & Asia: Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures, v. 4, p. 115-141.
www.african.gu.se/aa/pdfs/aa04115.pdf
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Wanji. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Zaramo. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Zigua. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html
