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