Die Sudansprachen

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Die Sudansprachen

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Diedrich Westermann
His 1911 publication, Die Sudansprachen (“The Languages of the Sudan”), paralleled Meinhof’s work on the Bantu languages: it postulated the genetic unity of a group of languages that had earlier been classified as “Mixed Negro,” and he reconstructed a parent language, “Ur-Sudan,” that preceded them. To do so,…
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His 1911 publication, Die Sudansprachen (“The Languages of the Sudan”), paralleled Meinhof’s work on the Bantu languages: it postulated the genetic unity of a group of languages that had earlier been classified as “Mixed Negro,” and he reconstructed a parent language, “Ur-Sudan,” that preceded them. To do so,…
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