Language diversification and contact in Africa
2020 ◽
pp. 210-226
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The linguistic map of Africa as it manifests itself in its gestalt to us today is the result of a range of factors, involving climate change, technological innovations, as well as social conditions. Climate change resulted in the expansion as well as reduction of human habitation and thereby of language families. Technological changes, for example the introduction of pastoralism or agriculture also must have played an important role in the creation of new linguistic areas. A quintessential role, however, is to be attributed to social factors determining whether linguistic boundaries are maintained or dissolved.
2021 ◽
pp. 136345932110214
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2020 ◽
pp. 153-172
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