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[ Niger-Congo » Benue-Congo » Bantoid » Bantu » Zone F ]

Bantu languages of Zone F

There are some 10 languages in Zone F, the largest of which are Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Nyaturu, Nilamba, and Rangi.

Zone F languages are spoken in Tanzania.

Quick jump to other Bantu zones:
AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE, FFF, GGG, HHH, JJJ, KKK, LLL, MMM, NNN, PPP, RRR, SSS

Distribution of Bantu F

General, comparative, miscellaneous back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975
The Tanzanian Language Survey. Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Gérard Philippson, 1991
Tons et accent dans les langues bantu d'Afrique orientale (PDF). Thèse d'état. Université René Descartes (Paris 5).
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/PDF/philippson/these.pdf

Gérard Philippson, 1998
Tone reduction vs metrical attraction in the evolution of Eastern Bantu tone systems (PDF). From: Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone. Edited by Larry M. Hyman and Charles W. Kisseberth. CSLI Stanford University.
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Annuaires/PDF/Philippson/Philippson_1998a.pdf

Bende (F12) back to top »

Yuko Abe
Online Bende-English-Swahili-Japanese lexicon.
homepage2.nifty.com/abende/dic/Bende_lex/lexicon/main.htm

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Bende. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Bungu (F25) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Bungu, Wungu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Kimbu (F24) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Kimbu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Langi, Rangi, Irangi (F33) back to top »

T.G. Bergman, Joseph Mbongue, Rachel Sowers, Tracy Tooley, 2007
Sociolinguistic survey among the Rangi people (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2007-004.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2007-004

Margaret Dunham
Langi texts and sound files hosted at the CRDO (Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral).
crdo.risc.cnrs.fr/exist/crdo/index.htm

Margaret Dunham, 2001
Description ethno-linguistique des Valangi de Tanzanie (PDF). Thèse. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3).
www.margaret-dunham.com

Margaret Dunham, 2005
On the verbal system in Langi, a Bantu language of Tanzania (PDF). From: Studies in African linguistics, v. 33, p. 199-234.
www.margaret-dunham.com

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Langi. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Oliver Stegen, 2000
Rangi vowel system: five or seven? (PDF). Paper presented at the 30th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden, August 2000.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/rangi008.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2002
Derivational processes in Rangi (PDF). Revised version published in: Studies in African linguistics, v. 31, p. 129-153.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/3sal-der.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2003
"If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!" - Minority language development: the case of Rangi (PDF). Online Proceedings of the Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh, May 2003.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~pgc/archive/2003/proc03/Oliver_Stegen03.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2003
How does their language survive? Survival strategies in the Rangi language of Tanzania (PDF). Draft for a paper presented at the Meeting of the Language in Context Research Group, University of Edinburgh, June 2003.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/03surviv.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2003
First steps in reconstructing Rangi language history (PDF). Paper presented at the 33rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden, August 2003.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/0308pbrg.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2004
Editing Rangi narratives: a pilot study in literature production (PDF). Paper presented for the Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh, May 2004.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~pgc/archive/2004/proceedings/stegen2004.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2005
Editing Rangi narratives (PDF). Updated version. EWPAL, v. 14, p. 68-98.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/05ewpal.pdf

Oliver Stegen, 2006
Participatory research, TAM functions and dialect survey among the Rangi (PDF). Paper presented at the 36th colloquium on African languages and linguistics (CALL36), University of Leiden.
www.tca.leidenuniv.nl/content_docs/CALL2006/stegencall2006.pdf

CORR Oliver Stegen, 2007
Lexical density in oral versus written Rangi texts (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 173-184.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Mbugwe (F34) back to top »

Margaret Dunham
Mbugwe texts and sound files hosted at the CRDO (Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral).
crdo.risc.cnrs.fr/exist/crdo/index.htm

Nyamwezi, Kinyamwezi (F22) back to top »

Sufian Hemed Bukurura, 1995
Indigenous communication systems: lessons and experience from among the Sukuma and Nyamwezi in west-central Tanzania (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 4 (2), p. 1-16.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Russell Gray, Simon Greenhill
Bantu basic vocabulary database: Asu, Basaa, Bemba, Bukusu, Kinyamwezi, Koyo. University of Auckland, New Zealand.
language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/bantu

Nancy Chongo Kula, 2004
Palatalization and depalatalization in Kinyamwezi (PDF). To appear in: Phonologica 2002.
www.nancykula.net/Phonologica%20draft%2004-03.pdf

Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi, 2002
Verbal extensions in Bantu: the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi (PDF). Africa & Asia: Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures, v. 2, p. 4-26.
www.african.gu.se/aa/pdfs/aa02004.pdf

Clement Maganga, Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1992
Nyamwezi wordlist (2,000 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Nyamwezi. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1989
Tone and history of Nyamwezi verb forms with complex final tones (PDF). From: Afrika und Übersee, v. 72, p. 33-42.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8820

Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1991
High tone shift in KiNyamwezi (PDF). From: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, v. 17, supplement, p. 201-221.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8825

Nyilamba, Ilamba (F31) back to top »

Margaret Dunham
Nyilamba texts and sound files hosted at the CRDO (Centre de Ressources pour la Description de l'Oral).
crdo.risc.cnrs.fr/exist/crdo/index.htm

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Nyiramba. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Rimi, Nyaturu (F32) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Nyaturucha, Nyaturuwil. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1978
Über die Töne der nominalen und pronominalen Formen im Rimi (PDF). From: Afrika und Übersee, v. 61, p. 189-209.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8798

Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1979
Über die Töne der verbalen Formen im Rimi (PDF). From: Afrika und Übersee, v. 62, p. 288-313.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8800

Ellen Woolford, 1999
Animacy hierarchy effects on object agreement (PDF). From: New dimensions in African linguistics. Edited by Paul Kotey. Africa World Press.
people.umass.edu/ellenw

Ellen Woolford, 2000
Agreement in disguise (PDF). From: Advances in African linguistics. Edited by Vicky Carstens and Frederick Parkinson. Africa World Press.
people.umass.edu/ellenw

Sukuma, Kesukuma (F21) back to top »

Sufian Hemed Bukurura, 1995
Indigenous communication systems: lessons and experience from among the Sukuma and Nyamwezi in west-central Tanzania (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 4 (2), p. 1-16.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Ian Maddieson, 1993
Splitting the mora (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 83, p. 9-18.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No83/

Michael Mann, 1966
Sukuma wordlist (3,200 items). Hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Masangu Matondo, 2006
Tonal transfer in Kisukuma (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Sukuma, Ntuzu. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

CORR Josephat M. Rugemalira, 2007
The structure of the Bantu noun phrase (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 15, p. 135-148.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Sumbwa (F23) back to top »

Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson, 1975/99
The Tanzanian language survey: Sumbwa. Database hosted at the CBOLD site.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Docs/TLS.html

Tongwe (F11) back to top »

Toshisada Nishida, Shigeo Uehara, 1981
Kitongwe names of plants: a preliminary listing (PDF). African study monographs, v. 1, p. 109-131.
jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/root.htm


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