Title: Contact between Austronesian and African languages: a short overview Speakers: Professor Alexander Adelaar, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (visiting professor) Date: June 12 (Fri.), 2015, 13:00 - 15:00 Place: Hakubi Center, 2nd floor seminar room, Kyoto University   Abstract: Contact between Austronesian and African languages took many forms. Most noticeable is the Bantu element in Malagasy. It mainly consists of influence from coastal East Bantu languages, and more particularly from languages belonging to the Sabaki group. Kiswahili had a major lexical impact as an important trade language and the vehicular language for the introduction of Islam in Madagascar’s Northwest. Comorian languages were also a source of lexical influence, being [ Read More ]