Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation

F. W. Kolbe

ISBN 10: 1330654226 / ISBN 13: 9781330654224

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book introduces a new method of language analysis grounded in the Bantu languages of Central and Southern Africa. In particular, the author focuses on Herero, a language rich in primitive structures, which provides clues to the earliest forms of spoken language. The author, who is a linguist and missionary, argues that the Bantu languages have been preserved in a more primitive state than the better-known Indo-European languages which dominate most of Western education and literature today. The book offers new and evocative insights into the relationship between words and things and thereby, between humans and nature. It sheds light on the very origins of speech, and the principles of universal grammar. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1330654226
• ISBN 13: 9781330654224
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Learning Foreign Languages

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Excerpt from Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation: The Original Plural, the Sexual Dual, and the Principles of Word-Comparison; Tables Illustrating the Primitive Pronominal System Restored in the African Bantu Family of Speech

Aryan and other languages. Subsequently, in following up an observation of Mr. Rath's as to the dualistic tendency of the prefix oma (ama the sexual dual became clear to him. Now, these two fundamental principles, viz., the vowel-laws and the sexual dual, have already, at any rate as regards Bantu, met with the approval of two high philological authorities in England, and it is hoped that the other principles set forth in this little work - the result of over thirty years' patient research - Will also commend themselves to the student as truths founded on sufficient evidence, and illustrative of the new and fuller light the study of Bantu is destined to shed on the Aryan family and on the origin of language universally. For whilst.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.