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Title:<\/strong> Contact between Austronesian and African
\nlanguages: a short overview
\nSpeakers:<\/strong> Professor Alexander Adelaar, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (visiting professor)<\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> June 12 (Fri.), 2015, 13:00 – 15:00
\nPlace:<\/strong> Hakubi Center, 2nd floor seminar room, Kyoto University<\/p>\n

  <\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>
\nContact between Austronesian and African languages took many forms.
\nMost noticeable is the Bantu element in Malagasy. It mainly consists of influence
\nfrom coastal East Bantu languages, and more particularly from languages belonging to
\nthe Sabaki group. Kiswahili had a major lexical impact as an important trade language
\nand the vehicular language for the introduction of Islam in Madagascar\u2019s Northwest.
\nComorian languages were also a source of lexical influence, being spoken on islands
\nconstituting the gateway from Madagascar to the African mainland, and therefore to
\nsome extent to the external world in general. Earlier, there may have been other forms
\nof Sabaki involved (closely related to Kiswahili and Comorian languages but not
\nidentical to them). As to non-Sabaki Bantu languages, Makhuwa became a lingua franca
\namong East African slaves in Madagascar (a large proportion of whom came from
\nMozambique). Its impact on Malagasy was apparently limited.
\nThere may also be a substratum from a non-Austronesian and non-Bantu language
\nin Malagasy, which would support the theory that Madagascar already had a population
\nprior to the arrival of Austronesian speakers.
\nFinally, the Austronesian languages Malagasy and Malay also left their traces in
\nBantu languages (a fact which has been systematically underestimated among
\nAfricanists).<\/p>\n

About the speaker<\/strong>:
\nAlexander Adelaar is a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and a
\nPrincipal Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. His research is on the
\nstructure and history of Austronesian languages, with emphasis on varieties of Malay and
\nthe languages of Borneo, Madagascar and Taiwan. He is currently involved in a study of the
\nlinguistic and migration history of Madagascar with a grant from the Australian Research
\nCouncil.
\nDr Adelaar is the author of Proto-Malayic. The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of
\nits morphology and lexicon (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1992), Salako or Badame\u00e0. Sketch
\ngrammar, texts and lexicon of a Kanayatn dialect of West Borneo (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,
\n2005), and Siraya. Retrieving the phonology, grammar and lexicon of a dormant Formosan
\nlanguage (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011). He is also co-editor of The Austronesian
\nlanguages of Asia and Madagascar (Routledge Language Family Series, London, 2005).<\/p>\n

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