BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, ...

The text of this lecture is from the proceedings of the conference "The Growth of Farming Communities in Africa from the Equator Southwards", edited by J.E.G. Sutton. The conference, held at Cambridge ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...