• BOESMAN-INVLOED OP AFRIKAANE PLEKNAME

BOESMAN-INVLOED OP AFRIKAANE PLEKNAME

: Raper (P.)

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302pp., paperback, UJ Press, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9780906785157

 

Through comparative linguistics and etymological analysis of a wide range of Southern African place names Peter Raper demonstrates how elements of Bushman languages live on in place names currently in everyday use. He explores the interplay between these ancient languages, Khoi-Khoi, various African languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana) and Afrikaans, and demonstrates how place names used by the Bushmen were adapted and transmitted between language communities.

Peter Raper is Extraordinary Professor (Linguistics) at the University of the Free State. He is the author of Voices Past and Present, a comparison of Old Cape dialectical, Bushman and KhoiKhoi words; /Xam Grammatika, woordeskat, voorbeeldsinne en grammatika van die /Xam-taal; Dictionary of Southern African Place Names and Woordeboek, Afrikaans-/Xam - /Xam-Afrikaans.