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[ Niger-Congo » Benue-Congo » Bantoid » Bantu » Zone n. ]

Bantu languages of Zone N

There are 10-20 languages in Zone N, the largest of which are Chewa-Nyanja, Tumbuka, and Sena.

Zone n. languages are spoken in Malawi, parts of northern and central Mozambique, southern Tanzania, eastern Zambia, and small parts of northern Zimbabwe.

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 N

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

Chewa-Nyanja (N31) back to top »

Wikipedia in Chichewa.
ny.wikipedia.org

Nyanja - PST 1995 special lessons (PDF). Peace Corps Zambia.
eric.ed.gov (ED402743)

(Anonymous?), 1969
Intensive Chichewa (PDF). Scan of (anonymous?) grammar originally publ. in Malawi, 1969. Scan prepared by Andy Lyons.
nature.Berkeley.EDU/~alyons/chichewa/index.html

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

Joan Bresnan, 1997
The emergence of the unmarked pronoun: Chichewa pronominals in Optimality Theory (PS). Stanford University.
www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/archive.html

Laura J. Downing, 2003
Stress, tone and focus in Chichewa and Xhosa (PDF). Frankfurter afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, v. 15, p. 59-81.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/home/downing/FAB2003ljd.pdf

Laura J. Downing, 2004
The prosody of focus in Bantu languages and the primacy of phrasing (PDF). Paper presented at the TIE Conference, Santorini (Greece), September 2004.
www.let.ru.nl/tie/PowerpointsANDpapers/thursday/DowningPaper.pdf

Laura Downing, Al Mtenje, Bernd Pompino-Marschall, 2004
Prosody and information structure in Chichewa (PDF). ZAS (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) papers in linguistics, v. 37, p. 167-186.
mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/BantuProjectPapers/ZASPiLChichewa.pdf

Gergely Kamper, 2006
Differential object marking (PDF). From: The Even Yearbook 7. Budapest.
seas3.elte.hu/delg/publications/even/2006.html

Pascal J. Kishindo, 2003
Recurrent themes in Chichewa verse in Malawian newspapers (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 12 (3), p. 327-353.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

CORR Thokozani Kunkeyani, 2007
Semantic classification and Chichewa derived nouns (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 151-157.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Sam Mchombo, 2001
Effects of head-marking on constituent order in Chichewa (PDF). Proceedings of the LFG01 conference. CSLI Publications Online.
csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/6/lfg01mchombo.pdf

Sam Mchombo, 2006
Linear order constraints on split NPs in Chichewa (PDF). ZAS papers in linguistics, n. 43, p. 143-160.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Sam Mchombo, Yukiko Morimoto, 2004
Configuring topic in the left periphery: a case of Chichewa split-NPs (PDF). ZAS (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) papers in linguistics, v. 37.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/papers/zaspil/articles/zp35/yukiko_end.pdf

Yukiko Morimoto, 2006
Agreement properties and word order in comparative Bantu (PDF). ZAS papers in linguistics, n. 43, p. 161-188.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Francis Moto, 2004
Towards a study of the lexicon of sex and HIV/AIDS (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 13 (3), p. 343-362.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Al Mtenje, 2001
Chewa wordlist (6,200 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Philip M. Parker
Chewa English dictionary.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Chewa

Lenny Rhine
Patient-doctor interaction - general phrases for ChiBemba, ChiNyanja, CiTonga and SiLozi at the medical library, University of Zambia.
www.medguide.org.zm/translation/vocabtbl.htm

Silvester Ron Simango, 2007
Enlarged arguments in Bantu: evidence from Chichewa (PDF). From: Lingua, v. 117, p. 928-949.
eprints.ru.ac.za/777

Manda (N11) back to top »

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

Matengo (N13) back to top »

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

Mpoto (N14) back to top »

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

Ndendeule (N101) back to top »

Deo Ngonyani, 1995
Towards a typology of applicatives in Bantu (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED392256)

Deogratias S. Ngonyani, 2006
Resumptive pronominal clitics in Bantu languages (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Ngoni (Tanzanian) (N12) back to top »

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

Nsenga (N41) back to top »

Silvester Ron Simango, Ken Safir
CiNsenga files - grammar sketch, anaphora sketch, questionnaire. African Anaphora Project, Rutgers University.
www.africananaphora.rutgers.edu/CiNsenga.html

Nyungwe, "Tete" (N43) back to top »

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

Sena (N44) back to top »

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

Julius Torrend, 1900
Gramática do chisena: a grammar of the language of lower Zambezi (PDF). Missão de Chipanga.
www.archive.org/details/grammaticadochis00torruoft

Tonga, Siska (N15) back to top »

CORR Al D. Mtenje, 2007
On recent trends in phonology: vowel sequences in Bantu languages (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 33-48.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Tumbuka (N21) back to top »

Tumbuka, a Bantu language of Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/index.htm

Wikipedia in Tumbuka.
tum.wikipedia.org

Robert Chase, 2004
A comparison of demonstratives in the Karonga and Henga dialects of Tumbuka (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/papers.htm

Laura J. Downing, 2004
The prosody of focus in Bantu languages and the primacy of phrasing (PDF). Paper presented at the TIE Conference, Santorini (Greece), September 2004.
www.let.ru.nl/tie/PowerpointsANDpapers/thursday/DowningPaper.pdf

Laura J. Downing, 2006
The prosody and syntax of focus in Chitumbuka (PDF). ZAS papers in linguistics, n. 43, p. 55-80.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Gregory Hankoni Kamwendo, 2004
"Your Chitumbuka is shallow. It's not the real Chitumbuka" - linguistic purism among Chitumbuka speakers in Malawi (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 13 (3), p. 275-288.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Wendell A. Kimper, 2004
Question formation in the Karonga dialect of Tumbuka (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/papers.htm

Wendell A. Kimper, 2006
Question formation in the Karonga dialect of Tumbuka (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Joshua Maislin, 2004
Applicative suffix in Tumbuka (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/papers.htm

Lisa Shiozaki, 2004
Concordial agreement in the Karonga dialect of Tumbuka (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/papers.htm

Whitney Warren, 2004
Verbal morphology in Karinga Tumbuka (PDF). Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
www.ro6ert.com/ro6ert/portfolio/tumbuka/papers.htm


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