Abstract This article presents the Bantu relative agreement (BRA) cycle, a scenario of recurrent morphosyntactic change that involves emergence relativizers, which are subsequently integrated into verb form, where they can ultimately replace original subject prefix. All logical outcomes at every stage cycle amply attested in languages family. The BRA makes sense many puzzling characteristics cl...

Huntington's disease was studied in a Bantu community in northern Tanzania. Although there is evidence to suggest that the disease has been present here for over one hundred years, this is the first report of the condition in Tanzania. A survey of published reports indicates that the disease is infrequently reported in persons of Negro ancestry.

A discussion on how to handle consonant combinations in the Bantu language Mpiemo, spoken in the the south west border region of the Central African Republic is presented. The question is raised, whether nasal+consonant combinations are adequately analysed as single phonological units or as separate ones. Phonetic, syllabic and morphological aspects are taken into consideration.

hypotheses concerning the origin of African Pygmies, termed “recent divergence and differential admixture” (RDDA) and “pre-Bantu divergence” (PBD) (Destro-Bisol et al.,, 2004). The RDDA hypothesis sustains that the genetic differentiation observed between Eastern Pygmies (settled in Zaire) and Western Pygmies (Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo) is due to the combined effect of differ...

This article reports on a production study that investigates the realisation of a single high tone in the verbal constituent in Northern Sotho, a Bantu language spoken in South Africa. The parameters of variation investigated are based on existing descriptive and theoretical literature and relate to numbers of syllables in the verb stem, morphosyntactic constituency and verb-internal morphologi...

Previous research has shown that listeners from tonal languages are better at processing tone compared to speakers from non-tonal languages. However, most of this research has tested Asian tone languages, particularly those which have many tonal contrasts and a dense tone-to-syllable association. In this paper we investigate the mental representation of derived tones in Bemba, a Bantu language ...

No vital statistics are available for the Bantu of South Africa, and knowledge of their disease pattern is dependent on clinical impressions and on examination of hospital material, which is, of necessity, selected. The numerous fallacies involved in the interpretation of hospital statistics, especially for heart disease, have recently been reviewed by Mainland (1). Unfortunately, however, such...