Indigenous Common Names and Toponyms in Southern Africa
The primary process of toponymic formation by the earliest indigenous inhabitants of the African sub-continent, the Bushmen and Khoikhoi, was evolutionary. Due to their primary onomastic function, descriptions or common names that identified and referred to geographical features gradually lost thei...
Main Author: | Peter E. Raper |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2017-10-01
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Series: | Names |
Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2130 |
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