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Publication details [#41310]

Mufwene, Salikoko S. 1985. Some bantu ways of talking: The case of kinship vocabularies. Language Sciences 7 (2) : 271–282.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

kinship | lexicon | translation

Language as a subject

English | Kituba | Lingala

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article uses evidence from Lingala and Kikongo-Kituba to dispute Bach (1968) and Wierzbicka (1980)'s claims that anything which is said in one language can be faithfully translated into another language.