University of British Columbia, 2021. — 315 p. This dissertation investigates vowel harmony and some related processes in Fungwa, which is an endangered Kainji language spoken in Nigeria. In the language, there are two kinds of vowel harmony. In the first pattern of vowel harmony, the vowels of CV prefixes and clitics agree in backness with the vowel of the adjacent root...
The Committee for the Standardization of C’Lela Orthography, 1996. — 30 p. It is difficult to state the exact date when the idea for a standard orthography for C’Lela, at least as conceived and articulated by the Committee for the Standardization of C’Lela Orthography, was first expressed. But between the late 80’s and the early 90’s, people like Michael Gujiya, Ishyaku Nababa...
Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, SOAS, 2012. — 369 p. Roger Blench first had the opportunity to listen to a Kainji language (Kambari) in 1980, when visiting David and Liz Crozier in Salka. Since then he has visited and surveyed various languages rather sporadically over the years. However, with the availability of funding from the Kay Williamson Educational Foundation it...
Jos: SIL, 2015. — 155 p. The goal of this paper is to provide an in-depth linguistic study of C'Lela, a language of northwestern Nigeria. The speakers of this language, who designate themselves as Lelna, have undertaken the arduous challenge of developing a standard written form of the language. The study aims to be of adequate scope and thoroughness to furnish the linguistic...
WOCAL7, 2012. — 46 p. Bantu languages generally use verbal inflection to convey information related to time reference. However, many West African Niger-Congo languages closely related to Bantu use other means to convey this kind of information. This study considers C’Lela, a language in the Kainji sub-group of Benue-Congo, in relation to how it conveys future time reference....
Jos, Nigeria: 2020. — 218 p. The goal of this sketch is to provide initial insights on u̱s-Saare̱ ([ɨ̀s-sà:ɾɛ̀]), a language of northwestern Nigeria. A number of speakers of this language, who refer to themselves as Saare̱ ([sà:ɾɛ̀]), have assisted in developing a standard written form of the language and in this analysis. The study aims to be of adequate scope and...
Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2021. — 58 p. This report describes an initial sociolinguistic survey of the people who speak the Bauchi [bsf] and Fungwa [ula] cluster of languages. These people reside in the Rafi and Shiroro Local Government Areas (LGAs), Niger State, in central Nigeria. Bauchi is a cluster of six related languages, including Asamburu, Bandeke, Guda, Rubu,...
University of Oregon, 2020. — 295 p. U̠t-Ma'in is a Kainji, East Benue-Congo language, spoken in northwestern Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code [gel]). This study contributes to our understanding of Benue-Congo languages by offering the first indepth look at nominalization phenomena in any Kainji language. Kainji is an undesrdescribed 50+ language subgroup of Benue-Congo; current...
SIL International, 2010. — 241 p. This study is concerned with the orthography development of three Kambari languages: Agwara Kambari, Salka Kambari, and Auna Kambari. It documents the standardization of the languages as implemented by the Kambari Language Project. It provides the linguistic and sociolinguistic data that influenced the orthographic decisions, and in a number of...
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