Language Subareas in Ethiopia Reconsidered

• Authors: Andrzej Zaborski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Traditional terms and ideas of ‘Sprachbund’ and ‘language area’ as its best English equivalent are better than ‘revisionist’ neologisms. There is a North East African Macro-Area including languages belonging to the Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Bantu language families. There is an interesting phenomenon of resistance to influence and ‘borrowing’ in some realms in spite of ‘borrowing’ elsewhere in the same languages.

Keywords

EN

language area; Afroasiatic; Nilo-Saharan; Bantu; areal linguistics

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Lingua Posnaniensis
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 99-110

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2011-02-16

Contributors

author

Andrzej Zaborski

• Jagiellonian University, Kraków

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DOI

10.2478/v10122-010-0017-7