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Mambwe Proverbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

†A. Werner  and
A. N. Tucker
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Extract

[On going through the papers of Dr. Alice Werner, I found many valuable and interesting documents. Miss Mary Werner very generously presented these papers to the School, and it is the aim of the African Department to edit and publish them from time to time in the Bulletin. It is hoped that the following short article will be the forerunner of an extensive series. A. N. T.]

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1940 , pp. 455 - 467
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1940

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page 460 note 1 This practice has evidently been followed by Dr. Werner in the proverbs given here. [ED.].

page 460 note 2 It will be noticed in most East African languages that the ŋ pronunciation is heard when the following syllable in the same stem contains a nasal sound, and that the g is heard in other contexts. In such languages ŋ and ŋg may be said to belong to the same phoneme. (ED.)

page 460 note 3 i.e. palatalized, ŋg to a sound approximating nj, and ŋ to a sound approximating ny. (ED.)

page 461 note 1 As far as can be gathered from the MS., there is no difference in pronunciation in modern Mambwe between vowels derived from Ur-Bantu i and î or U and û. (ED.)

page 461 note 2 By “pure vowel” is meant a vowel which has never had a ν or before it. Vowels which have at one time had these consonants still act as consonants.