Bemba Resources

• General Bibliography for Bantu Linguistics
• Bibliography For Bemba Language Learning and Bemba Language History
• Bibliography For Bemba Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Comparative Bantu Linguistics, project at UC-Berkeley

Languages of Zambia, web site by Lee Bickmore

Comrie, Bernard, Matthews, Stephen, and Polinsky, Maria. 1996. Atlas of Languages: The Origins & Development of Languages Throughout the World. Quarto: New York.

Ohannessian, Sirarpi and Mubanga E. Kashoki, eds. 1978. Language in Zambia. London: International African Institute.

Welmers, William E. 1974. African Language Structures. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bibliography For Bemba Language: Language Learning, History, and Sociolinguistics

African language study at Michigan State University.

Bemba Introductory Course by Irvine Richardson with Mubanga E. Kashoki and Fidelis K. Kasonde. 8 audio tapes and 132 page script with dialogs and drills. Listed in the Media Catalog of LSS at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Givón, Talmy. 1969. Studies in ChiBemba and Bantu Grammar. Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 3.

Hoch, E. 1983 [1960]. Bemba Pocket Dictionary: Bemba-English and English-Bemba. Lusaka: National Educational Company of Zambia. **Reissued by Hippocrene Books (NY) 1998. Now available in print.

Hoch, E. 1963. Bemba grammar, with exercises. Ilondola : Language Centre.

Hyman, Larry M. 1995. Minimality and the Prosodic Morphology of Cibemba Imbrication. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 16(1):3-39.

Kashoki, Mubanga E. 1968. A Phonemic Analysis of Bemba. Zambian Papers, No. 3. Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Kashoki, Mubanga E.. 1990. Sources and Patterns of Word Adoption in Bemba. In Language Reform: History and Future, Volume V, ed. Istvan Fodor and Claude Hagege, 31-57. Hamburg: Helmut Buske.

Kashoki, Mubanga E.. 1978. The Language Situation in Zambia. In Language in Zambia, ed. Sirarpi Ohannessian and Mubanga E. Kashoki, 9-46. London: International African Institute.

Kashoki, Mubanga E. 1972. Town Bemba: A Sketch of Its Main Characteristics. African Social Research 13:161-86.

Kasonde, Makasa. 1985. Contribution á la Description du ChiBemba (Bantu M.42): Aperçu sur le Système verbal. Paris: Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle.

Mann, Michael, ed. 1995. A Vocabularly of Icibemba (compiled by Malcolm Guthrie). African Languages and Cultures, Supplement 2. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Mann, Michael. 1977. An Outline of Bemba Grammar. In Language in Zambia: Grammatical Sketches, Volume I. Lusaka: University of Zambia, Institute for African Studies.

Ministry of Education (Republic of Zambia). 1977. Zambian Languages: Orthography Approved by the Ministry of Education. Lusaka: NECZAM.

Oger, Louis. 1982. IciBemba cakwa Citimukulu (Volume 1): Amasambililo 43. Ilondola, Chinsali, Zambia: Language Centre.

Oger, Louis.   1982. IciBemba cakwa Citimukulu (Volume 2): The English Companion, Learn Bemba the Easy Way. Ilondola, Chinsali, Zambia: Language Centre.

Sharman, John C. 1956. The Tabulation of Tenses in a Bantu Language (Bemba: Northern Rhodesia). Africa 26:29-46.

Spitulnik, Debra and Mubanga E. Kashoki.    2001.   "Bemba." Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present. J. Garry and C. Rubino, eds. Pp. 81-85. New York and Dublin: H. W. Wilson.

Spitulnik, Debra. 1999. "The Digital Polyglot." An Interactive web site for Comparative Linguistics, in Bemba, Samoan, and Russian. Printed Pages: 59. Web sections: 21. Words: 8,808. 135 sentence examples in Bemba, Russian, and Samoan with streaming audio clips.

Spitulnik, Debra. 1998. "Bemba Home Page."

Spitulnik, Debra. 1998. "Bemba: A Brief Linguistic Profile." With M. E. Kashoki. Printed Pages: 9. Words: 3,277.    [Same as Spitulnik and Kashoki, 2001.]

Spitulnik, Debra. 1998. The Language of the City: Town Bemba as Urban Hybridity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 8(2):30-59

Spitulnik, Debra. 1998. "Bemba Genres and Linguistic Varieties." Includes streaming audio of field interviews in Bemba, to accompany analysis in 1998 JLA article.

Spitulnik, Debra. 1988. Levels of Semantic Structuring in Bantu Noun Classification. In Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Volume 5, ed. Paul Newman and Robert D. Botne, 207-20. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris.

Spitulnik, Debra. 1987. Semantic Superstructuring and Infrastructuring: Nominal Class Struggle in ChiBemba. Studies in African Grammatical Systems, Monograph No. 4. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.

Van Sambeek, J. 1955. A Bemba Grammar. London: Longmans, Green and Company.

Van Sambeek, J. 1955. A Bemba Grammar. London: Longmans, Green and Company.

White Fathers. 1991. White Fathers' Bemba-English Dictionary. Ndola: Mission Press by the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). Reprint of 1954 edition by Longmans, Green and Company (London).

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