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Morrison, Michelle Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a grammar of Rena (ISO bez), a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Tanzania by approximately 600,000 people. Bena is largely undocumented, and though aspects of Bena grammar have been described, there is no usable, detailed treatment of the Bena language. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is provide the first detailed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
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DeFrantz, Anita P. – Journal of Black Studies, 1979
This article surveys the literature on Ebonics that was published from 1865 to 1975. The linguistic features of Ebonics are categorized into phonological, systactical, and lexical groupings. (Author)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes