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Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics ( IF 0.313 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 , DOI: 10.1515/jall-2019-0010
Anne-Maria Fehn

Abstract This paper uses historical-comparative approaches in combination with quantitative methods to analyse data from a survey of varieties of the Bantu languages Herero and Kuvale spoken by ethnically diverse groups from southwestern Angola. We assess the status and position of the underdocumented “Kuvale” variety in relation to its closest geographic neighbours, and address questions about the history of the area. We find that Kuvale is lexically differentiated from its closest relatives Herero, Wambo and Nyaneka-Nkhumbi and should probably be considered a language in its own right. Within the lexicon and phoneme inventories of the surveyed varieties, no obvious indications of a substrate were found, including in data collected among the formerly Kwadi-speaking Kwepe, and among the Kwisi and Twa foragers, who have been hypothesized to constitute a remnant layer of non-Bantu, non-Khoisan foragers in the Namib desert.

中文翻译:

Kuvale:安哥拉西南部的班图语

摘要本文采用历史比较方法和定量方法相结合的方法,对来自安哥拉西南部各民族的班图语Herero和Kuvale进行的调查得出的数据进行了分析。我们评估未充分记载的“ Kuvale”品种相对于其最接近的地理邻居的状态和位置,并解决有关该地区历史的问题。我们发现,Kuvale在词汇上与它的近亲Herero,Wambo和Nyaneka-Nkhumbi有所区别,应该被认为是一种独立的语言。在被调查品种的词典和音素清单中,没有发现明显的底物迹象,包括在以前讲夸迪语的克维佩人,以及在克维西语和吐瓦语觅食者中收集的数据,
更新日期:2019-12-18
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