Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- 2 Language Contact and Historical Linguistics
- 3 The Chinese Expansion and Language Coexistence in Modern China
- 4 Tracing Language Contact in Africa’s Past
- 5 Populations in Contact: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genomic Evidence for Indo-European Diffusion
- 6 The Impact of Autochthonous Languages on Bantu Language Variation: A Comparative View on Southern and Central Africa
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
6 - The Impact of Autochthonous Languages on Bantu Language Variation: A Comparative View on Southern and Central Africa
from Part One - Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- 2 Language Contact and Historical Linguistics
- 3 The Chinese Expansion and Language Coexistence in Modern China
- 4 Tracing Language Contact in Africa’s Past
- 5 Populations in Contact: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genomic Evidence for Indo-European Diffusion
- 6 The Impact of Autochthonous Languages on Bantu Language Variation: A Comparative View on Southern and Central Africa
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
The dispersal of Bantu-speaking people from their ancestral homeland in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon across most of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa had a significant impact on the languages, cultures, and demography of autochthonous populations. Inversely, foragers and pastoralists also considerably contributed to the gene pool of Bantu-speaking communities, the speciation of their languages, and the evolution of their cultures. In this chapter, the impact of indigenous languages on Bantu language variation is assessed by comparing the language contact situations in Southern and Central Africa. Southern Africa is much better documented, because the much shallower time depth of contact between Bantu-speaking newcomers and autochthonous populations allowed the latter to survive as separate populations, often maintaining a language unrelated to Bantu. In Central Africa, the dispersal of Bantu languages is much older. Together with the success of other families, such as Ubangi and Central-Sudanic, it led to the death of all languages previously spoken by rainforest hunter-gatherers. Still little is therefore known about prehistoric language contact between indigenous forest foragers and immigrant communities. Nonetheless, Southern Africa provides us with useful insights to be tested in Central Africa.
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