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Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series 194] 2018
► pp. 45–60

Chapter 4
Sharing thoughts, concepts and experiences

Fieldwork on African languages

| University of Cape Town
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Languages of former hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa
  • 3.Arrival at the African continent
  • 4.Plants and their use in East Africa
  • 5.Languages spoken on islands in lakes of Ethiopia
  • 6.A Nǀuu reader for the ǂKhomani community
  • 7.A Luruuli-Lunyala dictionary project in Central Uganda
  • 8.Contextualizing “fieldwork” on African languages
  • References
Published online: 22 February 2018
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