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The UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) stands for a transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora.
Our research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or (im)material culture and relies on methods and theoretical insights from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, (art) history, botany, zoology, genetics, etc.
Within the field of Bantu linguistics, which is BantUGent’s centre of gravity, we strongly focus on historical linguistics, including language contact, and corpus linguistics and lexicography, which we strive to combine.
Our research is also integrated in several courses of the UGent BA in African Languages and Cultures and MA in African Studies, such as Introduction to African Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description in Africa, African Historical Linguistics, Bantu Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography, Comparative Bantu Grammar, and African Archaeology.
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Activities

  • Mon
    19
    May
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar with Chrisnah Renaudot Mfouhou (UGent): The noun class system of Ndungale [Ndt], an Ubangi "Mbaic" language of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    2:00 pmRoom 0.3, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 19 May 2025, 2pm
    Where? Room 0.3, Blandijnberg, Campus Boekentoren

     

    Chrisnah Renaudot Mfouhou (BantUGent, CongUbangi research project)

     

    The noun class system of Ndungale [Ndt], an Ubangi "Mbaic" language of the Democratic Republic of Congo

     

    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)

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  • Thu
    12
    Jun
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar with Hilde Gunnink (UGent; ULeiden): The origin of click words in Sotho (Bantu, S30)

    2:00 pmRoom 3.30, Camelot, Blandijnberg, Campus Boekentoren

    What?BantUGent research seminar

    When? 12 June 2025, 2pm

    Where? Room 3.30, Camelot, Blandijnberg, Campus Boekentoren

     

    Hilde Gunnink (BantUGent; Leiden University)

     

    The origin of click words in Sotho (Bantu, S30)

     

    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)

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  • Mon
    16
    Jun
    2025

    BantUGent research seminar with Paulin Baraka Bose (UGent): The gender system of Gezon, a poorly known variety of Pagibete (Bantu, C401)

    2:00 pmRoom 3.30, Camelot, Blandijnberg, Campus Boekentoren
    What? BantUGent research seminar
    When? 16 June 2025, 2pm
    Where? Room 3.30, Camelot, Blandijnberg, Campus Boekentoren

    Paulin Baraka Bose (BantUGent, CongUbangi research project)

     

    The gender system of Gezon, a poorly known variety of Pagibete (Bantu, C401)

     

    To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt (Nina.vanderVlugt@UGent.be) and/or Paulin Baraka Bose (Paulin.BarakaBose@UGent.be)

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