RVN Webinar Series - A proposed new East African Bantu cladelet: Langi, Chaga, Dawida, Saghala
Channel: Rift Valley Network
Date: 2023-10-27

-Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.
-Acknowledgement and citation: Nurse, Derek. 2023. A proposed new East African Bantu cladelet: Langi, Chaga, Dawida, Saghala. Talk Given at Rift Valley Webinar Series 18/10/2023.
-DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10048161
-Abstract: After Guthrie's (1971) mainly referential classification of the Bantu languages, the 1970/1980/1990s saw a flurry of modifications that were historical rather than referential. Since then, mostly silence for East African Bantu. This presentation proposes a new small clade that cuts across two of Guthrie's Zones, linking Langi (F33), Chaga (E60), Dawida and Saghala (E74a). It is based on a larger set of historical phonological changes and a small set of morphological innovations.
-For more, visit Derek's page at: https://www.mun.ca/linguistics/people/faculty-and-postdocs/derek-nurse/