Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture by Bird, N, Ormond, L, Awah, P, Caldwell, EF, Connell, B, Elamin, M, Fadlelmola, FM, Matthew Fomine, FL, López, S, MacEachern, S, Moñino, Y, Morris, S, Näsänen-Gilmore, P, Nketsia V, NK, Veeramah, K, Weale, ME, Zeitlyn, D, Thomas, MG, Bradman, N, Hellenthal, G

“…We also infer recent intermixing signals in multiple African populations, including Congolese, that likely relate to the expansions of Bantu language–speaking peoples.…”

Speech and Language Disorders in Kenyan Children: Adapting Tools For Regions With Few Assessment Resources. by Carter, J, Murira, G, Gona, J, Tumaini, J, Lees, J, Neville, BG, Newton, C

“…The tool was developed for children whose first language was KiGiryama, a Bantu language. A total of 539 Kenyan children (males=271, females=268, ethnicity=100% Kigiryama. …”

Literal and metaphorical usages of Babanki EAT and DRINK verbs by Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling

“… In Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of North-West Cameroon, two of the numerous consumption verbs, namely the generic verbs ʒɨ́ ‘eat’ and ɲʉ́ ‘drink’, constitute a major source of metaphorical extensions outside the domain of ingestion. …”
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Analysis of word-order universals using Bayesian phylogenetic inference by Ho, Pangus

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Bicultural, personality, and pedagogical competences in the perspective of BIPA language assistants by Syihabuddin Syihabuddin

“…Karena jumlah guru tidak memadai, maka Department of Education and Training Victoria merekrut guru bantu (language assistant) dari Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan berbagai kompetensi yang perlu dimiliki guru bantu untuk menunjang pelaksanaan tugasnya. …”
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Introduction to the issue by Thera Marie Crane

“…In this volume, Onyumbe & Koni Muluwa take a historical approach to the phonology of Cíbìnjì cyà Ngúsú, a Bantu language of DRC, highlighting some of the less common Bantu sound changes observed in this language. …”
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The Narrative Past Inflection in Sesotho Child and Child-Directed Speech by Kristina Riedel, Hannah Sarvasy, Katherine Demuth

“…This study investigates a low-frequency verbal inflection called the “narrative past” in child and child-directed speech in the Bantu language Sesotho. Since the function of the Sesotho narrative past is not well-described, this study aimed to illuminate both function and acquisition trends in the Demuth Sesotho Corpus (Demuth, 1992). …”
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Improving N-Best Rescoring in Under-Resourced Code-Switched Speech Recognition Using Pretraining and Data Augmentation by Joshua Jansen van Vüren, Thomas Niesler

“…Our experimental evaluation is performed on an under-resourced corpus of code-switched speech comprising four bilingual code-switched sub-corpora, each containing a Bantu language (isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, or Setswana) and English. …”
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