Thilo Christian Schadeberg (born 1942 in

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) is an Emeritus Professor of Bantu Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics of Leiden University.

Education and research

Schadeberg obtained his PhD at the

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in 1971 and was a Professor of

African Languages The languages of Africa are divided into several major language families: * Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Souther ...

and Cultures at Leiden since 1986. His research focuses on Bantu languages of East Africa and

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, and

Kordofanian languages The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the Kurdufan, Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four g ...

of Sudan.

Honors and awards

Schadeberg was the sole editor of the ''

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'' (JALL) from 1983 to 1989. Previously, he had been associate editor of JALL since its foundation by Paul Newman in 1979. Schadeberg is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 1989. He was a visiting professor at the

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from 2004-2007.

Selected publications

Schadeberg published many scholarly articles and book chapters, including: * ''Zur Lautstruktur des Kinga (Tanzania)'', Thesis, E. Symon, Marburg, 1971. In German. * The classification of the

Kadugli language Kadugli, also Katcha-Kadugli-Miri or Central Kadu, is a Kadu language or dialect cluster spoken in Kordofan. Stevenson treats the varieties as dialects of one language, and they share a single ISO code, though Schadeberg (1989) treats them as sep ...

group, in Nilo-Saharan, in Lionel Bender and Thilo C. Schadeberg, Eds., ''Nilo-Saharan Proceedings. Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 8–10, 1980'', 291-305. *

Nasalization In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is . In the Internation ...

Umbundu Umbundu, or South Mbundu (autonym umb, úmbúndú), one of many Bantu languages, is the most widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola. Its speakers are known as ''Ovimbundu'' and are an ethnic group constituting a third of Angola's popula ...

, ''Journal of African languages and linguistics'' 4 (1982) 109-132. * Les suffixes verbaux séparatifs en bantou, ''Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika'' (SUGIA) 4 (1982) 55-66. In French. * Tone cases in Umbundu, '' Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika'', 1986, 425-447. *

Kordofanian The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the Kurdufan, Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four g ...

, ''The Niger-Congo languages'' 1989, 66-80. * with Ridder Samsom, Kiinimacho cha mahali: Kiambishi tamati cha mahali-ni, ''Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere'' (AAP) 37 (1994) 127-138. In

Kiswahili Swahili, also known by its local name , is the native language of the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent litoral islands). It is a Bantu language, though Swahili ...

. *

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and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in

Bantu Bantu may refer to: *Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages *Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language * Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle *Black Association for National ...

, ''Belgian Journal of Linguistics'' 9 (1994) 73 - 84. * Object diagnostics in Bantu, in Emenanjo N. and Ndimele O.-m., Eds., ''Issues in African languages and linguistics. Essays in honour of

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'', 173 - 180, 1995. * Progress in Bantu lexical

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, ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' 23 (2002) 183-195. * Chapter 5.

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, in Nurse, D. and Philippson, G., Eds., ''The Bantu Languages'', Routledge Language Family Series, Routledge, London 2003. .

References

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Education and research

Honors and awards

Selected publications

See also

References