M. A. Bryan - Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa

This book deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour. Though some Vocabulary material is to be found here, and some more in vol. iv of the Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderlandl(hereafter referred to as L.S.N.B.B.), Vocabulary comparison itself plays little part. Within each Language Group and, indeed, within most Larger Units, correspondence in vocabulary is so strong as to be self evident, while the discussion of lexical affinities at a higher level is outside the scope of the present work. The Sections here follow those of the Handbook of African Languages, Part III (hereafter referred to as the Handbook). Since its publication, new data have come to light affecting the previous classification.

These Will be mentioned in situ, and the reader is referred to Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6; 7 and 8; 12 and 27; 18; 32. The Sections on SANDAWE-HOTTENTOT (37) and BUSHMAN-HADZA (38) are not represented here, having already had grammatical treatment in the Handbook by Dr. E. O. J. Westphal, while the Section on MBUGU (35) has already been dealt with in L.S.N.B.B.

Grammatical data on SOMRAI (8), MIMI (10), GULEI (25), BAKO (28), and SANYE (36) are so inadequate that no treatment has been possible. Professor Wolf Leslau has kindly contributed the Section on ETHIOPIC (AFRI- CAN SEMITIC, 33). CHANGES IN NOMENCLATURE The following new nomenclature is being used here: It has been the practice of the authors not to classify languages above the Larger Unit level. is liable to misinterpretation. SOURCES Sources of information are listed at the head of each Section. Since a full bibligraphy has already appeared in the Handbook, only such published works as have actually been drawn upon are given here; those which have appeared since the publication of the Handbook are Cited with full bibliographical detail.

Some of the material presented here is the result of field work in the Southern Sudan, Congo, Uganda, and Kenya by A. N. Tucker, supplemented by work with expatriate informants at the School of Oriental and African Studies, whose names are listed in situ. Other investigators have also helped by contributing their own field notes or manu- script grammatical sketches. Outstanding among these are: B. W.

Andrzejewski, who supplied our information on SOMALI and GALLA, obtained in the field and from informants at S.O.A.S. R. C. Stevenson, who wrote up manuscript BAGIRMI and SARA MBAI grammars especially for the Handbook, besides contributing other notes, also much supplementary personal information especially on the Nuba Hills languages; P. E. team; S. team; S.