The Bantu Languages

Book Overview

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification.

It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113879967X
• ISBN13: 9781138799677
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 806 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"