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Title:Ancient Benue-Congo Loans in Chadic?
Author:Hoffman, Carl
Year:1970
Periodical:Africana Marburgensia
Volume:3
Issue:2
Pages:3-23
Language:English
Geographic term:Northern Nigeria
Subjects:Chadic languages
Benue-Congo languages
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:Tentative observation on the possibility of Benue-Congo loans in Chadic languages. Cases studied are the words for: two, to know, elephant, to divide, ten, tortoise. The author hopes to show that in Chadic and especially in West Chadic languages there is the possibil ity of loans from (and possibly into) Benue-Congo languages, some of considerable antiquity. Notes, French summary.