The Sudanic Languages

1920 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
N. W. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Under the name of Sudanic or Negro languages are comprehended, according to the generally received terminology, the African tongues which stretch in a broad band across the continent from Cape Verd to the Great Lakes; further north they reach nearly to the Red Sea in isolated instances, and in the south to the confines of the Indian Ocean in the shape of linguistic islets whose affinities are only with difficulty recognizable. To the south of the area stretches the Bantu territory, interspersed with pigmy and Bushmen elements, of whom the latter alone have well-marked forms of speech, while the former appear to speak the tongues of Bantu neighbours, or of Sudanic tribes, who must have been their neighbours at an earlier period but have now been swallowed up in the Bantu flood. South-west of the Bantu we have the Nama languages, often classified as Hamitic.

The invaders: Phylogeography of dengue and chikungunya viruses Aedes vectors, on the South West islands of the Indian Ocean

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1769-1781 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Delatte ◽  
L. Bagny ◽  
C. Brengue ◽  
A. Bouetard ◽  
C. Paupy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
The Indian Ocean

scholarly journals Eocene to recent development of the South-west Indian Ridge, a consequence of the evolution of the Indian Ocean Triple Junction

1981 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Sclater ◽  
Robert L. Fisher ◽  
Phillippe Patriat ◽  
Christopher Tapscott ◽  
Barry Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Triple Junction ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ridge

Arabic as a Language of the South Asian Chancery: Bahmani Communications to the Mamluk Sultanate

Arabica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-435
Author(s):  
Meia Walravens
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The South ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Abstract A growing body of literature on trade and cultural exchange between the Indian Ocean regions has already contributed significantly to our understanding of these processes and the role of language and writing within them. Yet, the question remains how Arabic correspondence played a part in communications between South Asian powers and the rulers in the Red Sea region. In order to begin filling this lacuna, this article studies epistolary writings from the Bahmani Sultanate (748/1347-934/1528) to the Mamluk Sultanate (648/1250-922/1517) during the second half of the ninth/fifteenth century. The contextualisation and discussion of three letters render insight both into the (up to now unstudied) issues at play in Bahmani-Mamluk relations and into the nature of these Arabic texts.

scholarly journals Art. XXVII.—Notes on Malayalam Literature

1900 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-768
Author(s):  
T. K. Krishṇa Menon
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Malayalam is the language of the south-west of the Madras Presidency. It is the third most important language of the Presidency, the first and the second being Tamil and Telugu respectively. It is spoken in Malabar, Cochin, and Travancore. Out of a total of 5,932,207 inhabitants of these parts, 5,409,350 persons are those who speak Malayalam. These countries, taken as a whole, are bounded on the north, by South Canara, on the east by the far-famed Malaya range of mountains, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by the Arabian Sea.

scholarly journals Towards a better understanding of Rift Valley fever epidemiology in the south-west of the Indian Ocean

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Balenghien ◽  
Eric Cardinale ◽  
Véronique Chevalier ◽  
Nohal Elissa ◽  
Anna-Bella Failloux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Rift Valley ◽  
Rift Valley Fever ◽  
The South ◽  
Valley Fever ◽  
South West ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Distribution of Banda Intermediate water in the Indian Ocean

1966 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ Rochford
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Maximum Concentration ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Intermediate Water ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Westward Movement ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Oxygen Minimum

Banda Intermediate water has been identified as a salinity minimum (salinity 34.58-34.70‰) on the 27.40 σt surface, separated from Antarctic Intermediate to the south by an oxygen minimum of Red Sea origin. Banda water of these characteristics has been found as far west as Madagascar within a 0-20�S. zone of the Indian Ocean. Along110�E. Banda water was in maximum concentration at about 10� s. in August- December 1962. At this latitude and time of the year relatively strong (7-11 cm per sec) geostrophic currents to the west were found. Between January and July 1964 little or no net westward movement along 110� E, occurred. A strong (22 cm per sec) easterly flow of Red Sea water south of the Chagos Is, seems to retard the westward movement of Banda water and to divert its flow to the south.

XL. Some observations upon Myrrh, made in Abyssinia, in the year 1771, and sent to William Hunter, M.D. with specimens, in February, 1775

1775 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 408-417
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Made In ◽  
North Latitude ◽  
William Hunter

The ancients, and particularly DIOSCORIDES, have spoken of myrrh in such a manner, as to leave us no alternative, but to suppose either that they have described a drug which they had never seen; or, that the drug seen and described by them is absolutely unknown to modern naturalists and physicians. The Arabs, however, who form the link of the chain between the Greek physicians and ours, in whose country the myrrh was produced, and whose language gave it its name, have left us undeniable evidence, that what we know by the name of myrrh, is in nothing different from the myrrh of the ancients, growing in the same countries from which it was brought formerly to Greece; that is, from the East coast of Arabia Felix, bordering on the Indian Ocean, and that low land in Abyssinia on the South-east of the Red-sea, included nearly between the 12th and 13th degree of North latitude, and limited on the West by a meridian passing through the island Massowa; and on the East by another, passing through Cap Guardfoy, without the straits of Bab el Mandel.

scholarly journals ReNovRisk: a multidisciplinary programme to study the cyclonic risks in the South-West Indian Ocean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Tulet ◽  
Bertrand Aunay ◽  
Guilhem Barruol ◽  
Christelle Barthe ◽  
Remi Belon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
The South ◽  
South West Indian Ocean ◽  
South West ◽  
The Face ◽  
West Indian Ocean ◽  
Solid Transport

AbstractToday, resilience in the face of cyclone risks has become a crucial issue for our societies. With climate change, the risk of strong cyclones occurring is expected to intensify significantly and to impact the way of life in many countries. To meet some of the associated challenges, the interdisciplinary ReNovRisk programme aims to study tropical cyclones and their impacts on the South-West Indian Ocean basin. This article is a presentation of the ReNovRisk programme, which is divided into four areas: study of cyclonic hazards, study of erosion and solid transport processes, study of water transfer and swell impacts on the coast, and studies of socio-economic impacts. The first transdisciplinary results of the programme are presented together with the database, which will be open access from mid-2021.

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