The Benue-Gongola-Chad Basin : zone of ethnic and linguistic compression
- We wish to emphasize the fact that so far our investigations have concentrated on documenting large bodies of data covering a number of linguistic units in an area which - as we hope to have demonstrated - displays a highly complex linguistic and ethnic structure. Our aim in the above remarks is essentially to throw out a challenge. In order to be able to interpret this situation in terms of the historic development of this zone of compression, further investigations are required, particularly regarding linguistic interference between Chadic and Niger-Congo languages in the south, as well as between Chadic and Nilo-Saharan languages, particularly Kanuri in the north-east and Songhay in the north-west. Ultimately, questions like the following are at stake: To what extent did the numerous Chadic languages preserve their original Hamitosemitic heritage? What is the impact of the Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan languages on individual Chadic languages in the respective border areas? In this context, detailed comparative studies between Chadic and Adamawa on the one hand, Chadic and Jukunoid and Chadic and Jarawan Bantu on the other hand as well as Chadic internal research, are urgently required.
Author: | Herrmann JungraithmayrGND, Rudolf Leger |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35658 |
Parent Title (German): | Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 |
Series (Serial Number): | Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 (02, 161) |
Publisher: | SFB 268 |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2006/12/18 |
Year of first Publication: | 1993 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2006/12/18 |
Volume: | 2 |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 161 |
Last Page: | 173 |
Source: | IN : Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereiches 268 Band 2, Frankfurt am Main 1993 : 161-173 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 190098538 |
Institutes: | Zentrale Einrichtung / SFB 268 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |