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Niger-Congo languages --- Classification. --- Classification --- Niger-Congo languages - Classification.

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This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.

Linguistics --- Benue-Congo languages. --- Niger-Congo languages

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African languages --- Grammar --- Kwa languages --- Niger-Congo languages --- Kwa languages. --- Niger-Congo languages.

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"This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning five countries. It tests the hypothesis, "To what extent does full tone marking contribute to oral reading fluency, comprehension and writing accuracy, and does that contribution vary from language to language?". One of the main findings is that the ethno-literacy profile of the language community and the social profile of the individual are stronger predictors of reading and writing performance than are the linguistic and orthographic profiles of the language. Our data also suggests that full tone marking may be more beneficial for less educated readers and those with less experience of L1 literacy. The book will bring practical help to linguists and literacy specialists in Africa and beyond who are helping to develop orthographies for tone languages. It will also be of interest to cognitive psychologists exploring the reading process, and researchers investigating writing systems"--

Niger-Congo languages --- Literacy. --- Tone. --- Orthography and spelling.

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Ethnologie --- Ethnologie --- Ethnology --- Ethnology --- Ethnology. --- Langues nigero-congolaises. --- Langues nigéro-congolaises --- Langues tenda --- Niger-Congo languages --- Niger-Congo languages. --- Tenda (African people). --- Tenda (African people). --- Tenda (Peuple d'Afrique). --- Tenda (peuple d'Afrique). --- Dictionnaires français.