A Linguistic Geography Of Africa

Research on African languages has been preoccupied with understanding similarities across the four distinct language families. This book discusses whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, and demonstrates that such similarities are more common than is widely believed.

• | Edited By: Bernd (Universitat Zu Koeln) Heine
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 390 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0521876117
• | ISBN-13: 9780521876117