Patterns and Developments in the Marking of Diminutives in Bantu by Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guerois, Lutz Marten

“… This paper presents an overview of diminutives in the Bantu language family, with an emphasis on the role of the noun class system in diminutive formation. …”
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Formal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi by David Odden

“…This paper investigates the focusing system of one Bantu language, Kimatuumbi. It is argued that the optimal account of Kimatuumbi focus is to allow the syntactic rules to apply blindly and to filter out the unacceptable conflicts in focus via a pragmatic filter.…”
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The Anterior-Passive Portmanteau Suffix in Tiania by Larry Hyman

“… In this brief paper we show that the Bantu language Tiania (a variety of Kimeru spoken in Kenya) has a curious gap in the expression of the passive. …”
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On the Motivation and Structure of a Strengthening Process in Tswana by Schaefer, Ronald P.

“…A synchronic morphophonemic pattern of alternation constituting a single phonological process in Tswana, a Southeastern Bantu language, is examined.2 In order to account tentatively for this process, a discussion of its motivation and structure is undertaken. …”
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The rephonologisation of Shona loanwords from English: an optimality theory analysis by Maxwell Kadenge

“… In their quest to respond to scientific and educational demands, speakers of Shona, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, have expanded its lexical stock by borrowing mainly from the English language. …”
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The rephonologisation of Shona loanwords from English: an optimality theory analysis by Maxwell Kadenge

“… In their quest to respond to scientific and educational demands, speakers of Shona, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, have expanded its lexical stock by borrowing mainly from the English language. …”
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Sentential and proverbial morphological structures of Christian theonyms in Bemba by Susan Matukuto, Hambaba Jimaima, Gabriel Simungala

“… Drawing on Bemba, a Bantu language primarily spoken in northern Zambia, we interrogate the Christian theonyms to account for their complex morphological structures, while highlighting the wealth of information on the Bemba society and their sociocultural environment. …”
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga by Asiimwe Allen, Kouneli Maria, van der Wal Jenneke

“…Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs in the Bantu language Rukiga. We show how the Rukiga augment is parallel to the Greek determiner in the context of modification, and how it triggers a restrictive reading when present on a larger class of modifiers than familiar so far: relative clauses, adjectives, possessives, and certain quantifiers. …”
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Dataset for Siswati: Parallel textual data for English and Siswati and monolingual textual data for Siswati by Tanja Gaustad, Cindy A. McKellar, Martin J. Puttkammer

“…This data article presents a dataset for Siswati, a Bantu language of the Nguni group that is one of the eleven official South African languages and the official language of Eswatini (together with English). …”
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Entre modalité et conditionnalité by Ferdinand Mberamihigo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen

“…In the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62), the verbal prefix oo- has traditionally been described as either conditional or potential. …”
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OCP effects in Malawian CiTonga tone patterns by Lee Bickmore, Winfred Mkochi

“…In this paper, we describe and analyze the role of the OCP in Malawian CiTonga, an under-described Malawian Bantu language. We show that OCP violations involving High tones are sometimes repaired and sometimes not. …”
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From dugouts to double outriggers; Lexical insights into the development of Swahili nautical technology by Martin Walsh

“…This article examines some of the linguistic evidence in a more rigorous way, by undertaking a cross- dialectal comparison of names for watercraft and terms for outriggers in Swahili (Kiswahili), a Bantu language spoken on the islands and in scattered communities along the western seaboard of the Indian Ocean. …”
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Deverbal nominalization in Runyankore by Larry Hyman

“… In this paper I examine eleven different processes of deverbal nominalization in Runyankore, a Lacustrine Bantu language spoken in Uganda. After establishing both general and Runyankore-specific properties that distinguish nouns from verbs, I test each of these nominalizations against 13 phonological, morphological, and syntactic criteria. …”
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'My tongue is the stylus of a skilled scribe' (Ps 45:2c): If so in the Scriptures, then why not also in translation? by Ernst R. Wendland

“…This leads to a brief discussion of the translation of this psalm in Chewa, a Bantu language of southeastern Africa. How �skilful� does this version sound in the vernacular, and why is this an important aspect of the translator�s task in order to ensure that the �good word� (טוֹב֗ דּבר֘) of the Bible is faithfully as well as forcefully transmitted? …”
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Resultatives, Remoteness, and Innovation in Eastern and Southern Bantu T/A Systems by Robert Botne

“… Bantu language T/A systems often present challenging analytical conundrums, as is the case, for example, with languages in eastern zones F and S, whose systems are representative of the kinds of contrasts found across the Bantu landscape. …”
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A grammar sketch of the Shetjhauba variety of Shekgalagadi by Hilde Gunnink

“… Shekgalagadi is an endangered Bantu language of the Sotho cluster spoken in Botswana. …”
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z) by Flore Bollaert, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen

“… This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. …”
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Domestication of English in Africa via proverbial expressions: A lexico-semantic study of transliteration in the English of Akɔɔse native speakers in Cameroon by Napoleon Epoge

“…As such, this paper argues that Akɔɔse native speakers transpose the Akɔɔse proverbs into the English language in order to make the language a chest with treasure which expresses their sociolinguistic world view. [1] Akɔɔsә is a coastal Bantu language (with the code 652) of the Mbo Cluster Group (Gutherie, 1967) spoken by a people known as Bakossi.  …”
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Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models by Frederik Hartmann, Seán G. Roberts, Paul Valdes, Rebecca Grollemund

“…We analyse languages from the Bantu language family, using a prior geographic–phylogenetic tree of relationships to establish where and when languages were spoken. …”
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HLONIPHA “THE TRADITIONAL LANGUAGES OF RESPECT USED AMONG NGUNI, SOUTHERN SOTHO, ZULU, NDEBELE, AND XHOSA WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA VERSUS DING WOMEN IN DRC by Noël KITAMBILA MUTEN

“…Indeed, , he will try to trace back the linguistic roots of the word ‘Hlonipha’ which derives from the ‘Nguni’ tribe in South Africa, from its root ‘hlonip’, which attached to the prefix ‘isi” and the suffix “o’, also attached to the same root will become the name ‘isihlonipo’ which simply means the language of respect used by women in the Nguni, Xhosa, South Sotho, Ndebele tribes and it is compared with the Ding tribe (Zone 80, group B), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Bantu language classification by Malcon Guthrie (1970). …”
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