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By Christopher Ehret
This booklet is ready background and the sensible energy of language to bare ancient switch. Christopher Ehret deals a methodological consultant to making use of language facts in historic reports. He demonstrates how those equipment permit us not just to get well the histories of time classes and areas poorly served by way of written documentation, but in addition to complement our realizing of well-documented areas and eras. a number one historian in addition to old linguist of Africa, Ehret offers in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his accomplished therapy should be utilized by way of linguistically informed historians and historic linguists operating with any language and in any quarter of the area.
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Still other root words dealing with livestock raising have histories that include their having been borrowed from one language to another. Histories of this kind, of course, indicate the diffusion of the things or ideas from one early society or group of societies to another. ” e history of this word involves both its derivation by meaning shi from an earlier nilo-saharan pre-food-production root word that did not mean “to milk” and its later spread by borrowing, with its new meaning, from one nilosaharan branch to another.
Many different kinds of word borrowing have taken place in history. e patterns of word borrowing between languages fall into a variety of cate- Writing History from Linguistic Evidence 31 gories and subcategories, and each of these reflects something different about the historical interactions among the peoples involved in this adoption of new words. e borrowing, for instance, of a single word oen indicates the adoption of the item named by the word. e generic term -kal for “camel” in Turkana of northern Kenya, for example, is a loanword from rendille gaal, showing that the Turkana first learned of these animals from speakers of that language.
Nurse, Classification of the Chaga Dialects: Language and History on Kilimanjaro, the Taita Hills, and the Pare Mountains (Hamburg: buske verlag, 1979). in the 1980s Gérard Philippson further advanced our knowledge of the same region with his book “Gens des bananeraies”: Contribution linguistique à l’histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimanjaro (Paris: Éditions recherches sur les Civilisations, 1984) by adding comparative ethnographic evidence to the linguistic findings. notable examples of nurse’s contributions include “segeju and daisu: A Case study of Evidence from oral Tradition and Comparative Linguistics,” History in Africa 9 (1982): 175–208; “History from Linguistics: e Case of the Tana river,” History in Africa 10 (1983): 207–238; “reconstruction of dahalo History through Evidence of Loanwords,” Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 7, no.