More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African
continent can be divided into four distinct language families.
Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with
reconstructing and understanding similarities across these
families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of
linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities
and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of
contact between these languages, has never been the subject of
major research. This 2007 book shows that such similarities across
African languages are more common than is widely believed. It
provides a broad perspective on Africa as a linguistic area, as
well as an analysis of specific linguistic regions. In order to
have a better understanding of African languages, their structures,
and their history, more information on these contact-induced
relationships is essential to understanding Africa's linguistic
geography, and to reconstructing its history and prehistory.
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