Test meals in Europeans and Bantu in Johannesburg show that the stomachs of normal Europeans in the main secrete more acid and pepsin.Gastric studies in Bantu on a European diet compared with those on a more non-European type of diet reveal no difference in secretory behaviour. This, it is suggested, rules out current dietary habits as being responsible for the difference in gastric secretory b...

It has been suggested that the urinary hormone profile is subject to environmental changes, such as urbanization and Westernization, and that the composition of the hormones can be used as a discriminate in determining the patient at risk for breast cancer. In this study, a comparison of the plasma hormone levels in Bantu and Japanese women, low-risk populations, and Caucasian women, a high-ris...

I’ve been asked to write about the mutual influence of African languages and phonological theory, specifically addressing two questions: What and how have African language contributed to phonological theory? What and how have linguistic theories contributed to the understanding African phonology? To treat these questions properly would be a major undertaking, first, because of the large number ...

Due to morphological complexity and scarce resources, machine translation from Zulu to English is challenging. We investigate the possibility of phrase-based statistical machine translation from Zulu to English using syllables as the tokens in the Zulu source text. Initial experiments on a relatively small but multi-domain data set suggest merit in our approach, with our best syllable-based mod...

Previous studies on implosives have shown a great diversity in the production of implosives among the languages in the world. In the light of this, this paper seeks to identify the acoustic phonetic properties of a Bantu language, Mpiemo, spoken in the Central African Republic. One of the strong acoustic correlates of implosives is increasing voicing amplitude during occlusion, which contrasts ...

Classification, which could be defined as “a mental operation that causes an object or a multitude of objects to fall under a concept X” (Seiler, 1986), is linguistically expressed in many languages of the world, from Mandarin, Japanese or Burmese to languages of the Bantu or Amerindian families. It also appears in writing systems, for example in the ancient cuneiform, Mayan or hieroglyphic scr...

Sunmmary Groups of South African Bantu boys and girls of 14 years, compared with local Caucasian children, have lower cortical thickness, cortical score, and crosssection and volume scores for second metacarpal. Yet, when these parameters on groups of aged Bantu men and women, 70-79 years, are compared with published values on corresponding Caucasians, there are no significant differences. Furt...