Archibald Norman Tucker (1904 – 1980) was a Cape Colony-born linguist specializing in Bantu languages.p. 1. Bryan, Margaret. 1981. Professor A. N. Tucker (1904–1980). In ''Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, September 8–10, 1980,''

Thilo C. Schadeberg Thilo Christian Schadeberg (born 1942 in Dresden, Germany) is an Emeritus Professor of Bantu Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics of Leiden University. Education and research Schadeberg obtained his PhD at the University of Marburg in 1 ...

and M. Lionel Bender, eds., pp. 1, 2. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications. He earned his MA degree at the University of Cape Town. He did some study of

Bantu languages The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

in southern Africa and also made a trip to Sudan to study languages there. He worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931. He later moved to England in 1931. In London, Tucker studied under

Alice Werner Alice Werner (26 June 1859 - 9 June 1935) was a writer, poet and teacher of the Bantu languages.- Alice Werner

and Daniel Jones, earning his Ph.D. at University College London. Later he studied for a short time under Carl Meinhof in Hamburg. He was hired to teach at the School of Oriental Studies, being named a Professor of East African Languages in 1951. During his 39 years teaching there, "a number of students passed through his hands; many of them were later to become experts in various languages. But it was for his research, and he publications resulting therefrom, that he will be chiefly remembered." Tucker studied a number of African languages, including languages known as Dinka, Ganda, Kikuyu, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Masai, Lamba, Shona, Sukuma, Ntomba, Nyor, and comparative Eastern Sudanic languages. Tucker is known primarily for his two books published with Margaret Bryan: ''The Non-Bantu Languages of Northeastern Africa'' (1956) and, a decade later, ''Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa.'' According to Google Scholar, this monumental volume has been cited more than 434 times by other scholars.

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