Pushing back the origin of Bantu lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012

Lexikos

Volumn 22, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-194

  De Kind, Jasper ^a   De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^a,b   Bostoen, Koen ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angola; Authorship; Bantu; Base letters; Capuchins; Compilation strategy; Congo; Database; Diacritics; Dialect; Flemish; French; Jesuits; Kikongo; Kongo Kingdom; Language; Latin; Lexicographical structure; Loanwords; Manuscript; Meaning extensions; Misnamings; Orthography; Paraphrases; Phonetics; Proto bantu; Retranslations; Spanish; Translation equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873397964     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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