Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola
Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola
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10.1515/jall-2019-0010
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2019-10-01
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0.5
通讯作者：
Fehn, Anne-Maria
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作者：
Fehn, Anne-Maria
本文采用历史比较方法与定量方法相结合的方法，分析了来自安哥拉西南部不同种族群体使用的班图语（Herero）和库瓦莱（Kuvale）的各种调查数据。我们评估了未被记录的“库瓦莱”品种与其最近的地理邻居的地位和地位，并解决了有关该地区历史的问题。我们发现库瓦莱语在词汇上与它最近的亲戚Herero， Wambo和nyanka - nkhumbi不同，可能应该被视为一种独立的语言。在被调查的品种的词汇和音素清单中，没有发现明显的基质迹象，包括在以前说克瓦迪语的克威普人中收集的数据，以及在Kwisi和Twa觅食者中，他们被假设构成了纳米布沙漠中非班图人，非科伊桑人的残余层。
This paper uses historical-comparative approaches in combination with quantitative methods to analyse data from a survey of varieties of the Bantu languages Herero and Kuvale spoken by ethnically diverse groups from southwestern Angola. We assess the status and position of the underdocumented "Kuvale" variety in relation to its closest geographic neighbours, and address questions about the history of the area. We find that Kuvale is lexically differentiated from its closest relatives Herero, Wambo and Nyaneka-Nkhumbi and should probably be considered a language in its own right. Within the lexicon and phoneme inventories of the surveyed varieties, no obvious indications of a substrate were found, including in data collected among the formerly Kwadi-speaking Kwepe, and among the Kwisi and Twa foragers, who have been hypothesized to constitute a remnant layer of non-Bantu, non-Khoisan foragers in the Namib desert.