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Original Articles

Historical review of the nomenclature applied to Negro languages

Pages 277-297 | Published online: 24 Feb 2007

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  • Appleyard's . 1847 . “Alliteral Class” .
  • Clarke's . 1848 . “Kaffir Class” .
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  • Bleek had published the name Bâ‐ntu in 1858 on p. 40 of Vol. I.
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  • Cooley . Journal of the Royal Geographical Society , then quoted his own words published in the
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  • 1891 . “Nigro‐Hamitic or Nigritic” . Vol. 1 , 536 while Bliss
  • 1919 . A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi‐Bantu Languages Johnston published the first volume of
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