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

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at the

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in 1971 and was a Professor of

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and Cultures at Leiden since 1986. His research focuses on

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. T ...

East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa: Due to the histori ...

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 fo ...

of Sudan.

Honors and awards

Schadeberg was the sole editor of the '' Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' (JALL) from 1983 to 1989. Previously, he had been associate editor of JALL since its foundation by

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in 1979. Schadeberg is a member of the

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(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 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. *

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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 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 h ...

. *

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and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in

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, ''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