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The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, co...

Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound s...

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Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages bei...

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For scholars and advanced students of African languages and linguistics and African studies, this...

The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics

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With contributions from a team of global scholars, the book highlights the role of language in so...

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The Transformative Power of Language

'Based on the author's life-long research experience, this book unearths the linguistic history o...