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Proto-Bantu language, the Glossary

Index Proto-Bantu language

Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 46 relations: A. E. Meeussen, Affricate, Africa, Agreement (linguistics), Allophone, Back vowel, Bantoid languages, Bantu expansion, Bantu languages, Cameroon, Carl Meinhof, Close vowel, Coronal consonant, Diphthong, Fricative, Front vowel, Guthrie classification of Bantu languages, Labial consonant, Language family, Lateral consonant, Linguistic reconstruction, Malcolm Guthrie, Mass noun, Nasal consonant, Near-close vowel, Noun class, Nyong River, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Palatal consonant, Phoneme, Plosive, Polyphyly, Proto-language, Proto-Niger–Congo language, Roger Blench, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Sanaga River, Sibilant, Southern Bantoid languages, Syllable, Tervuren, Tone (linguistics), Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Wilhelm Bleek.

  2. Bantu languages

A. E. Meeussen

Achille Emile Meeussen, also spelled Achiel Emiel Meeussen,Swiggers (2009).

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Agreement (linguistics)

In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

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Allophone

In phonology, an allophone (from the Greek ἄλλος,, 'other' and φωνή,, 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor phonesused to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bantoid languages

Bantoid is a major branch of the Benue–Congo language family.

See Proto-Bantu language and Bantoid languages

Bantu expansion

The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.

See Proto-Bantu language and Bantu languages

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Carl Meinhof

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (23 July 1857 – 11 February 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Coronal consonant

Coronals, denominated point-and-blade consonants prior, are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue.

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Diphthong

A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Proto-Bantu language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages

The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). Proto-Bantu language and Guthrie classification of Bantu languages are Bantu languages.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Linguistic reconstruction

Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages.

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Malcolm Guthrie

Malcolm Guthrie (10 February 1903 – 22 November 1972) was an English linguist who specialized in Bantu languages.

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Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Near-close vowel

A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Noun class

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns.

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Nyong River

The Nyong (formerly Yong) is a river in Cameroon.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Proto-Bantu language and Open vowel

Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

See Proto-Bantu language and Open-mid vowel

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Proto-Bantu language and Palatal consonant

Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.

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Proto-language

In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-Bantu language and proto-language are proto-languages.

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Proto-Niger–Congo language

Proto-Niger–Congo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed Niger–Congo language family. Proto-Bantu language and proto-Niger–Congo language are proto-languages.

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Roger Blench

Roger Marsh Blench (born August 1, 1953) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist.

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Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) (Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika (KMMA); Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC); Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika (KMZA)), communicating under the name AfricaMuseum since 2018, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels.

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Sanaga River

The Sanaga River (formerly Zannaga) is the largest river in Cameroon located in East Region, Centre Region and Littoral Region.

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Sibilant

Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.

See Proto-Bantu language and Sibilant

Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family.

See Proto-Bantu language and Southern Bantoid languages

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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Tervuren

Tervuren (Tervueren) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Wilhelm Bleek

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist.

See Proto-Bantu language and Wilhelm Bleek

See also

Bantu languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Bantu_language

Also known as Common Bantu, Proto-Bantu, Ur-Bantu.