Blench's proposal that Chadic arrived with pastoralism involving goats, a way of life that spread from the Middle East, probably initially along the eastern side of the Nile, therefore matches the DNA ...

A group of chromosomes of potential interest to past trans-Saharan connections is the paragroup R1b1 * (R-P25 *). Cruciani et al 18 found this paragroup (at that time defined as haplogroup 117, or ...

The University of Colorado Linguistics Department is seeking speakers of hitherto un-described African languages to participate in research projects whose aim is to produce descriptions of those ...

CU Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajyzngier and an international team of researchers have produced a landmark dictionary of the Chadic language Hdi. The book is the first trilingual dictionary of ...

Africa is humankind's home continent. Homo sapiens, with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know it today, originated in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago.

Hausa language is a Chadic language, which is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family and is spoken as a first language by no fewer than 35 million people, and a second language by at least 41 ...