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The Bantu Languages is an important resource for the study of Bantu languages, and a valuable summary of the state of the art in the field, with special emphasis on historical-comparative work. The short language descriptions are a rich primary source of data, which will ensure the book's longevity.' - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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The Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary Database laid the foundations for such a systematic comparative study (Bostoen 2004a, 2004b, 2005, 2006, 2007). Its online publication makes it possible to check all lexical evidence on which the above publications relied for the reconstruction of the early history of pottery in Bantu-speaking Africa. Moreover, its data can be used for future comparative research, since they have not been fully exploited yet.
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The classification of the Bantu languages is still in an incipient state. There still is no well founded genetic classification. The most widely used system, the alphanumeric coding system developed by Malcolm Guthrie, is mainly areal. In recent decades, there have been at least two proposals for a genetic classification system to replace the Guthrie system. The "Tervuren" proposal of Bastin, Coupez, and Mann suffers from inferior methodology (its reliance on the "lexicostatistic" method) and the SIL proposal suffers from failure of its creators to publish their methodology. The Guthrie system needs to be updated, e.g., by the addition of languages previously overlooked.
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The coming of the Bantu to Uganda had many effects. The most obvious among such effects is that they led to the settlement and increased the population of eastern, central, and southern Uganda. They are ... credited with introducing iron working in Uganda. Although it is not yet clear whether it was the Bantu or the legendary Bachwezi who introduced iron working in Uganda, We still believe that the Bantu might have come with the idea because their movement coincided with the Iron Age 9A.D 500-500).
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The sixteen original prefixes of the Bantu languages are given below in the most archaic forms to be found at the present day. The still older types of these prefixes met with in one or two languages, and deduced generally by the other forms of the particle used in the syntax, are given in brackets. It is possible that some of these prefixes resulted from the combination of a demonstrative pronoun and a prefix indicating quality or number.
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With respect to allomorphy, verbs in Romance languages show more allomorphy than those in Bantu languages. For example, verbs in Romance languages such as Italian are divided into stem classes based on theme vowels, which are absent in Bantu. There is ... stem allomorphy, illustrated as follows for Italian.
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