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E-book Of the Same Breath : Indigenous Animal and Place Names

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Successive migration into the sub-continent of southern Africa² and habitation of the region by Khoikhoi, Bantu and European peoples, as well as subsequent physical, social and linguistic contact, resulted in the assimilation and acculturation of these speakers and the changes to their proper names. This is illustrated inter alia in the many place names deriving from naming elements employed inter-linguistically in the users’ naming activities, as well as the diversity of languages spoken in the southern African region. This acculturation influenced the interwoven tapestry of naming, i.e. displaying animal and place names in the many different voices from which they originated and the shared heritage they formed. As the title of the book suggests, this study investigates place names that incorporate the often forgotten, and sometimes fossilised, remnants of indigenous animal names, focusing on the traces of Bushman and Khoikhoi sound-imitative (onomatopoeic), descriptive and metaphoric elements. It also focuses on some comparable names in the Bantu languages, and refers to the scientific zoological and ornithological terminology in which these names have been retained.The overt theme is thus the presentation of indigenous animal names from various languages and how they appear in southern African toponyms or place names. While exploring the animal names, initially only in the Bushman and Khoikhoi languages, an underlying notion or sub-text emerged from the interlayered language interactions that took place as names developed and changed through time, and how they were transferred from one language to another, whether by adoption, adaptation, hybridisation, translation or some other linguistic processes. It was soon realised that the cross-linguistic transfer of name elements or components into the common heritage of southern African place names, was much more complex in its interlinked reference systems, both in content and in the context of language contact.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

929.1 MOL o

Penerbit

South Africa : UJ Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

378 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781928424031

Klasifikasi

929.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Genealogy

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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