In search of the Saharan inflectional verbal paradigms in Old Kanembu

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description The extensive Old Kanembu texts found in the Borno Qur’anic manuscripts provide, as far as we know, the earliest evidence for a sub-Saharan language and shed light on the history of the languages of the Saharan family. In this article, the form/meaning features of Old Kanembu inflectional TAM’s are compared with the corresponding Kanuri, Teda-Daza and Beria inflectional paradigms. The analysis, though preliminary, demonstrates that Old Kanembu is diachronically close to proto-Western Saharan, and also reflects proto-Saharan features retained in Eastern Saharan Beria which is located at the geographical extreme of the family at some distance from Western Kanuri/Kanembu.
format Journal Article
author Bondarev, Dmitry
author_facet Bondarev, Dmitry
authorStr Bondarev, Dmitry
author_letter Bondarev, Dmitry
title In search of the Saharan inflectional verbal paradigms in Old Kanembu
publisher Dietrich Reimer
publishDate 2005
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/9741/

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