Southern African linguistic area
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The Southern African linguistic area is a region characterized by extensive language contact and shared structural features among diverse language families spoken in southern Africa.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khoisan linguistic area | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sprachbund
ⓘ
linguistic area ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
extensive language contact
ⓘ
shared structural features ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| hasContactType |
adstrate influence
ⓘ
language shift ⓘ long-term multilingualism ⓘ substrate influence ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
areal diffusion of grammatical structures
ⓘ
areal diffusion of phonemes ⓘ click consonants ⓘ extensive use of tone in many languages ⓘ lexical borrowing across families ⓘ shared phonological patterns ⓘ shared syntactic patterns ⓘ |
| hasResearchTopic |
areal convergence in southern Africa
ⓘ
contact between Bantu and Khoisan languages ⓘ origin and spread of click consonants ⓘ |
| includesCountry |
Angola
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Botswana NERFINISHED ⓘ Eswatini NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesotho NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ Namibia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesLanguageFamily |
Afrikaans language
ⓘ
Bantu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ English language ⓘ Germanic languages ⓘ Khoe languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Khoisan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Kxʼa languages ⓘ Nguni languages ⓘ Sotho–Tswana languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsonga languages ⓘ Tuu languages ⓘ Venda language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influences |
lexicon of Bantu languages in the region
ⓘ
phonological systems of Bantu languages in the region ⓘ phonology of Afrikaans in the region ⓘ regional varieties of English in southern Africa ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
African linguistics
ⓘ
areal linguistics ⓘ |
| timeDepth | several millennia of contact ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
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