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dc.contributor.authorRaper, Peter E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-12T13:59:34Z
dc.date.available2023-01-12T13:59:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20230112_9781928424499_35
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60653
dc.description.abstractThe preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving some of them. The subcontinent of Africa has been inhabited by Bushman, Khoikhoi and Bantu-speaking peoples for thousands of years, and, for the past few centuries, also by European-speaking peoples. Contact between these peoples brought about changes in the different languages. As a result, modern languages are no longer identical to the original ones, many of which, especially in the case of the Bushman and Khoikhoi languages, have become extinct. Words used in ancient times and recorded long ago often bear no resemblance to their modern counterparts. In this book, Peter E. Raper provides a detailed investigation of the earliest recordings of words available. Words from Old Cape dialects are compared for correspondences in sound and meaning to words from 29 Bushman languages and dialects, as well as to words from Nama, Koranna, Griqua, !Xuhn, !Xoon, Khwe and N/uu. Voices Past and Present provides an extensive corpus of words that can be further utilised for the purpose of shedding light on the specific languages from which the recorded words (and names) were derived, on historical distribution of the various groups, on the classification of the different languages and peoples, for determining relationships or otherwise between the different languages, potentially identifying components of place-names and ethnonyms from ancient and extinct languages, and elucidating other matters that have long vexed scholars who have complained about a lack of recorded data.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.otherKhoisan
dc.subject.otherBushman
dc.subject.otherSan
dc.subject.otherindigenous
dc.subject.otherCape dialects
dc.subject.otherorthographic representation
dc.subject.othereffluxes
dc.subject.otherconsonants
dc.subject.othervowels
dc.subject.otherphonological variability
dc.titleVoices past and present
dc.title.alternativeA comparison of Old Cape dialectal, Bushman and Khoikhoi words
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.18820/9781928424499
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb166ea55-2ec8-4e5c-98ed-c27d3909a50b
oapen.relation.isbn9781928424482
oapen.imprintUJ Press
oapen.pages489
oapen.place.publicationBloemfontein


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