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[ Afroasiatic » Chadic » West Chadic ]

West Chadic languages

There are some 60-80 West Chadic languages, incl. Hausa, all of which are spoken west of Lake Chad in Nigeria and Niger.

General, comparative, miscellaneous back to top »

Bernard Caron, 2007
Condition, topic and focus in African languages: why conditionals are not topics (PDF). From: ZAS papers in linguistics, v. 46, p. 69-82.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Russell G. Schuh, 1977
West Chadic verb classes (PDF). From: Papers in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Paul Newman & Roxana Ma Newman. Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC).
hdl.handle.net/1887/468

Russell G. Schuh, 2002
Palatalization in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WC_palatalization.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2002
The locus of pluractional reduplication in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WC_redup.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
A comparative study of West Chadic verb suffixes (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/chadic_affixes.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Yobe State, Nigeria, as a linguistic area (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/BLS_05_schuh_full.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
The totality extension and focus in West Chadic (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/Berlin_2005.pdf

Olga Stolbova
West Chadic etymology.
starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config

Bade < Bade-Ngizim languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The nominal and verbal morphology of Western Bade (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/WB_morphology.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The linguistic influence of Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kanuri_Bade_Ngizim.pdf

Bole < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

CORR Maher Awad, 1994
The semantic contribution of complementizers and complementation type: the case of Bolanci "na" (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED375629)

Alkaji Maina Gimba, 2000
Bole verb morphology. Dissertation. Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole/bole_papers.html#Gimba%20dissertation

Alkaji Maina Gimba, Madu Bah, Malam Baba Ali
Bole-English-Hausa dictionary.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
The metrics of a Bole song style, kona (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kona_Metrics.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
Sources of gemination and gemination as a morpheme in Bole (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Bole_gemination.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2001
Substantive and anaphoric 'thing' in Bole, with remarks on Hausa abu/abin (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/THING_WP.pdf

Russell G. Schuh
Draft chapters and sections for a forthcoming (2005) reference grammar of Bole. Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Bole/bole_papers.html

Dyarim, Dyarum (< Zeem?) < Barawa languages back to top »

Roger M. Blench
The Dyarim language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm

Hausa < Hausa-Gwandara languages back to top »

See separate page for Hausa.

Karekare < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003 (rev. 2005)
"Shooting through the nose in Karekare" (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/karekare_hn.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Karekare verbal system (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/karekare_Vsystem.pdf

Kholok, Widala < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Kupto < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Kwami < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1994
The monologue of the dove: reflections on life and death in an oral tradition of the Kwami people in northern Nigeria (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 4, p. 99-111.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3578/

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Mwaghavul, Sura, Mupun < Sura-Goemai-Angas languages back to top »

C. Chanard
Mwaghavul - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Zygmunt Frajzyngier, 1991
A man and a woman, or gender marking in a nominal system (PDF). From: Actes du quatrième colloque Méga-Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/34248.pdf

Ngamo < Bole-Karekare languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
'-ish' reduplication in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/gudi_ish_reduplication.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2004
Ngamo genitives (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/ngamo_genitives.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
The Great Ngamo Tone Shift (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/GNTS.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Degemination, compensatory lengthening, and gemination in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). UCLA working papers in linguistics, n. 11, p. 1-11.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl11/papers/Schuh_Phono6.pdf

Russell G. Schuh, 2005
Internal reconstruction of the totality exntension *t in Gudi Ngamo (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/Papers/Ngamo_int_recon.pdf

Ngas, Angas < Sura-Goemai-Angas languages back to top »

C. Chanard
Angas - système alphabétique d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

Ngizim < Bade-Ngizim languages back to top »

The Yobe Languages Research Project.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/Aflang/Yobe/yobe.html

Russell G. Schuh, 2003
The linguistic influence of Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim (PDF). Linguistics Dept, UCLA.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/Papers/Kanuri_Bade_Ngizim.pdf

Pa'a < North Bauchi languages back to top »

Margaret G. Skinner, 1977
Gender in Pa'a (PDF). From: Papers in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Paul Newman & Roxana Ma Newman. Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC).
hdl.handle.net/1887/468

Piya < Tangale languages back to top »

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf

Ron languages back to top »

Roger M. Blench
Why reconstructing Proto-Ron is so problematic (PDF). From: Topics in Chadic linguistics. Edited by Ekkehard Wolff. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm

Tangale < Tangale languages back to top »

Herrmann Jungraithmayr, 1995
Erosive Prozesse in der Tangale-Sprache (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 5, p. 215-223.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3566/

Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, 1996
"Terraces" and "terraced farms" in the languages of the Tangale-Waja Uplands (PDF). Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, v. 8, p. 113-125.
publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/3572/

Rudolf Leger, 1995
Peculiarities of the words 'death' and 'to die' in some Bole-Tangale languages (PDF). From: Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM).
www.bondy.ird.fr/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/41816.pdf


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