Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing
Lexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. Here we explore patterns of vocabulary transfer between languages from three families (Kx’a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi) comprising the linguistic unit commonly referred to as Southern African Khoisan. In our da...
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| Main Authors: | Anne-Maria Fehn, Bonny E. Sands, Admire Phiri, Maitseo Bolaane, Gaseitsiwe Masunga, Ezequiel Fabiano, Jorge Rocha |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Human Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X25100145/type/journal_article |
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