Glottolog 5.1 - Bena (Tanzania)

Spoken L1 Language: Bena (Tanzania)

Classification

▼Atlantic-Congo (1410)

Comments on subclassification

Bernadette Mitterhofer 2013 Culwick, Arthur Theodore and Culwick, G.M. 1935: 20

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Bena (bez-bez) = 5 (Developing).

Glottocode: bena1262
ISO 639-3: bez

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References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Michelle Elizabeth Morrison 2011	A reference grammar of Bena	2011	547	grammar	cldf, hh, langsci, phoible
Priebusch, Martin 1935	Bena-Hehe-Grammatik	1935	160	grammar_sketch	eballiso2009, guldemann, hh, weball
Nurse, Derek and others 1970s	A phonological and morphological sketch of 15 of the principal languages of Tanzania	1970		grammar_sketch	eballiso2009
Helen Eaton 2015	Bena Narrative Discourse	2015	92	specific_feature	hh, langsci
Bernander, Rasmus 2012	Contact induced change in Bena (G63) - A study of 'swahilization' in a Tanzanian vernacular language	2012	55	comparative, specific_feature	cldf, hh
Philippson, Gérard 1991	Tons et Accent dans les Langues Bantu d'Afrique Orientale: Étude Comparative Typologique et Diachronique	1991	542	overview, comparative, specific_feature	cldf, eballiso2009, hh, weball
Chaula, Edigio Hangaika Yamligile 1989	Aspects of Ki-Bena phonology: the case of Ki-Mavemba variety	1989		phonology	eballiso2009, hh, langsci, weball
Hilary Flavian 2018	Ikyoledzi kya mumwene kya Kibena	2018	28	wordlist	hh
Last, Joseph T. 1885	Polyglotta Africana Orientalis	1885	248	overview, wordlist	hh
Nurse, Derek and others no date [1970s]	A phonological and morphological sketch of 15 of the principal languages of Tanzania	1970	98	wordlist	hh
Bernadette Mitterhofer 2013	Lessons from a Dialect Survey of Bena: Analysing Wordlists	2013	131	overview, comparative, wordlist	hh
Nurse, Derek 1979	Description of sample Bantu languages of Tanzania	1979	150	overview, comparative, wordlist	guldemann, hh, langsci, weball
Johnston, Harry H. 1919, 1922	A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages	1919	840	overview, comparative, wordlist	cldf, eballiso2009, guldemann, hh, langsci, mpieva
[1913] 1913	... = Bena vocabulary	1913		wordlist	eballiso2009
Nurse, Derek 1988	The Diachronic Background to the Language Communities of Southwestern Tanzania	1988	101	overview, comparative	cldf, eballiso2009, hh, langsci, weball
Rebecca Grollemund and Simon Branford and Koen Bostoen and Andrew Meade and Chris Venditti and Mark Pagel 2015	Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals	2015	11	overview, comparative	evobib, hh, langsci
Greenway, P.J. 1947	A veterinary glossary of some tribal languages of Tanganyika territory	1947	8	comparative	eballiso2009, langsci, weball
Mdemu, C. 1995	A comparative study of Ki-hehe, Ki-bena and Ki-pangwa	1995		overview, comparative	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Helen Eaton 2013	A comparison of narrative verb forms in Bena, Nyakyusa, Malila and Nyiha	2013	24	minimal	hh, langsci
Felician Boniface Mgimba 2014	Assessing Kibena (G 63) Endangerment Basing On Intergenerational Language Transmission Parameter	2014	120	socling	hh
Michelle Morrison 2015	Dialect Variation in a Minority Language: The Case of Bena	2015	13	dialectology	hh
Fülleborn, Friedrich [Georg] [Hans] [Heinrich] 1906	Das deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet, Land und Leute: nebst Bemerkungen über die Schire-Länder	1906	656	ethnographic, overview	hh, langsci
Mumford, W.B. 1934	The Hehe-Bena-Sangu peoples of East Africa	1934	20	ethnographic, overview	cldf, eballiso2009, hh
ISO 639-3 Registration Authority 2021	Change Request Number 2021-034: adopted create [egm] (2022-01-20)	2021		overview	iso6393
ISO 639-3 Registration Authority 2020	Change Request Number 2020-008: rejected create [egm] (2021-01-15)	2020		overview	iso6393
Maho, Jouni Filip and Sands, Bonny Eva 2002-2004	The languages of Tanzania: a web links collection = Web appendix to The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography (Maho & Sands 2002)	2002		bibliographical, overview	eballiso2009, hh
Culwick, Arthur Theodore and Culwick, G.M. 1935	Ubena of the rivers	1935	444	ethnographic	cldf, eballiso2009, hh
Mwenda, Edward A. 1962/63	Historia na maendeleo ya Ubena = History and development of Ubena	1962	25	ethnographic	eballiso2009
Culwick, Arthur Theodore and Culwick, G.M. 1934	Tribal heirlooms among the Wabena of the Ulanga valley	1934	167		eballiso2009
Schumann, Carl 1917/18	Der musikalische Ton in der Benasprache	1917	25		eballiso2009
Swartz, Marc J. 1964	Continuities in the Bena political systems	1964	20		eballiso2009
Morrison, Michelle 2009	Homorganic NC sequences in Kibena: pre-nasalized consonants, consonant clustrers, or something else?	2009	19		eballiso2009
Culwick, G.M. and Culwick, Arthur Theodore 1937	What the Wabena think of indirect rule	1937	18		eballiso2009
Swartz, Marc J. 1968	The bilingual kinship terminology of the Bena	1968	17		eballiso2009, weball
Nurse, Derek and R. M. Mfugale and J. M. L. Hawanga and E. Lugalla 1979	Bena	1979	12		eballiso2009, weball
Nurse, Derek and others 1979	Description of sample Bantu languages of Tanzania [with contributions by E.R. Byarushengo, G. Philippson, E.M. Ntabaye, A.N.G. Naling'igwa, Mrs G.K. Puja, H.M. Batibo, C. Maganga, S.M. Mazengo, D.J. Mkude, M.R. Kizara, R.M. Besha, R.M. Mfugale, J.M.L. Hawanga, E. Lugalla, I.A.M. Makombe, J.S.M. Mwangomango, and M.J. Bushiri]	1979	150		eballiso2009
Hodges, Kathryn Speed and Suzanne U. Stucky 1979	On the inadequacy of a grammatical relation referring rule in Bantu	1979	9		eballiso2009, weball
Park, George 1988	Evolution of a regional culture in East Africa	1988	88		eballiso2009
Semsdorf, G. 1xxx	Kibena				eballiso2009
Oelke, Julius 193x	Grammatik des Kibena				eballiso2009
Kutalek, Ruth 2001	Steven Lihonama Lutumo. Leben und Arbeit eines traditionellen Heilers der Bena Südwest-Tansanias: ein Beitrag zur biographischen Forschung in der Ethnomedizin	2001			eballiso2009
Nyagava, Seth I. 1999	A history of the Bena to 1914	1999			eballiso2009
Mvena, Zebedayo S.K. 1984	Technology and dependent rural development: lessons from selected village in Njombe, Tanzania	1984			eballiso2009
Graham, James Douglas 1968	Changing patterns of wage labor in Tanzania: a history of the relations between African labor and European capitalism in Njombe District, 1931-1961	1968			eballiso2009
Küsters, Meinulf 1930s	Kibena Grammatik	1930			eballiso2009
Fülleborn, Friedrich [Georg] [Hans] [Heinrich] 1906	Das deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-Gebiet, Land und Leute: nebst Bemerkungen über die Schire-Länder; mit Benutzung von Ergebnissen der Njassa- und Kingagebirgs-Expedition der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung	1906			eballiso2009
Fülleborn, Friedrich [Georg] [Hans] [Heinrich] 1902	Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Nord-Nyassaländer: anthropologische Ergebnisse der Nyassa- und Kingagebirgs-Expedition der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung	1902			eballiso2009
Last, Joseph Thomas 1885	Polyglotta africana orientalis: a comparative collection of two hundred and fifty words and sentences in fourty-eight languages and dialects spoken south of the Equator, and additional words in nineteen languages	1885			eballiso2009

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