Bantuistics
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Bantuistics is the linguistic field devoted to the scientific study and analysis of Bantu languages, including their structure, history, and classification.
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| Bantuistics canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
academic discipline
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area studies of African languages ⓘ subfield of linguistics ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
describe grammatical structures of individual Bantu languages
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document endangered Bantu languages ⓘ establish internal classification of Bantu languages ⓘ reconstruct Proto-Bantu ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | Bantu languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Bantu language family
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Niger-Congo language family (Bantu branch) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
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Proto-Bantu reconstruction ⓘ noun class agreement ⓘ tone and intonation in Bantu ⓘ verbal extensions in Bantu ⓘ |
| isSubdisciplineOf |
African linguistics
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general linguistics ⓘ |
| languageArea |
Central Africa
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Eastern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bantu language studies
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historical-comparative linguistics ⓘ typology of Bantu languages ⓘ |
| studies |
classification of Bantu languages
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comparative grammar of Bantu languages ⓘ derivational morphology in Bantu languages ⓘ dialectology of Bantu languages ⓘ historical development of Bantu languages ⓘ language change in Bantu languages ⓘ language contact in Bantu-speaking areas ⓘ language documentation of Bantu languages ⓘ lexicography of Bantu languages ⓘ morphology of Bantu languages ⓘ noun class systems in Bantu languages ⓘ orthography development for Bantu languages ⓘ phonology of Bantu languages ⓘ pragmatics of Bantu languages ⓘ semantics of Bantu languages ⓘ sociolinguistics of Bantu languages ⓘ syntax of Bantu languages ⓘ tone systems in Bantu languages ⓘ verbal morphology in Bantu languages ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
comparative method in historical linguistics
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fieldwork-based language description ⓘ morphosyntactic analysis ⓘ phonological analysis ⓘ |
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