Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Carsten Peust

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Volume 172 (2022), Issue 1, Page 5 - 26

Summary: Based on original field work, this paper provides a preliminary outline of Gadang, a little-known Chadic language spoken in the Republic of Chad. It covers the grammar of the major word classes of the language and includes a basic vocabulary. Special attention is given to the verbal ablaut system, a feature that was inherited from Afro-Asiatic and has been fairly well preserved in this language.

Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Carsten Peust

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Volume 171 (2021), Issue 1, Page 9 - 37

Based on original field work, this paper provides a preliminary characterization of Sarwa, a little-known Chadic language spoken in the Republic of Chad. Following a brief overview of the phonology, this paper covers the grammar of the major word classes of the language and also includes a basic vocabulary. Special attention is given to the verbal ablaut system, a feature inherited from Afro-Asiatic which has been fairly well preserved in this language.

Herrmann Jungraithmayr

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Volume 169 (2019), Issue 2, Page 265 - 280

There are some hundred and fifty languages in the central Sudan (northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and central Chad) whose linguistic outfit betrays them as genetically belonging to the large stock of Hamitosemitic/Afroasiatic languages. After some eighty years of research (documentation and interpretation) into these languages, the article tries to give an overview over the essential lexical and morphological features which Chadic languages share as a common heritage with the other members of the stock.