Bushman languages [i.e., A short survey of Bushman languages]

Bushman languages [i.e., A short survey of Bushman languages]

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A facsimile of typewritten pages with transferred and subsequent annotations/corrections in black ink and pencil. TS.

Bushman (their languages), phonetic characteristics (common to all Bushman languages), monosyllables, tones, vowels (their indistinctness and variation), ordinary consonants (the very limited use of some), clicks (all Bushman languages use them), phonology, morphology (Bushman speech is difficult to describe in grammatical terms)

A full copy (pages 1 to 19) of a draft for Dorothea Bleek's 'A short survey of Bushman languages' published in Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen-Sprachen, volume 30, November 1939, pp. 52-72 (Güldemann & Fehn, 2014: 304). The librarian or archivist's note pencilled in the top margin saying 'p54-72' is uncorroborated by the literature.