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  Carl Meinhof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (July 23, 1857-February 11, 1944) was a German linguist known as one of the first linguists to study African languages.
In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages.
Meinhof, C 1948 (1st edn 1906) Grundzüge einer vergleichenden Grammatik der Bantusprachen.
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 Carl Meinhof -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (July 23,1857-February 11,1944) was a (A person of German nationality) German (A specialist in linguistics) linguist known as one of the first linguists to study African languages.
In his work, Meinhof looked at (Click link for more info and facts about noun classes) noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages.
During his career, Meinhof published several books on African languages and made recordings of East African music in 1902 which was one of the first recordings made of traditional African music.
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 Sudanic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of its proponents was the German linguist Carl Meinhof.
Meinhof had been working on the Bantu languages, which have a elaborate noun class system, and he labeled all languages that lacked such a noun class system Sudansprachen.
Westermann, pupil of Carl Meinhof, carried out comparative linguistic research on the then Sudanic languages during the first half of the twentieth century.
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 Baader-Meinhof: Ulrike Meinhof
Riemack was a devoted socialist, and a profound influence on Meinhof.
Meinhof drifted away from Röhl, and towards the radical fringe of the student movement.
She hung herself in her cell on 9 May, 1976 (though some have questioned this official explanation and instead suspect that she was murdered by the state).
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 The Baader Meinhof Gang
On April 27, however, Meinhof was taken to Berlin’s Mohabit prison because she was being tried in that city for her part in Baader’s 1970 jailbreak.
Their trial would end with Meinhof convicted and sentenced to eight years, Mahler sentenced to four on top of the eight he was already serving, and Bäcker acquitted.
Two of the accused were missing from the Stuttgart courtroom; Meinhof because she was being tried in Berlin and Meins because he was too weakened by his prolonged hunger strike to appear.
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 Baader-Meinhof: Jan-Carl Raspe
He was captured along with Baader and Holger Meins by police in a bloody Frankfurt shootout 1 July 1972.
Raspe was tried with Ulrike Meinhof, Baader, and Gudrun Ensslin in a trial held on the grounds of Stuttgart's Stammheim prison.
After the longest trial in German history, Raspe was convicted along with Baader and Ensslin (Meinhof committed suicide in 1976) of murder and other counts, and sentenced to life.
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 Hamitic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, the allegedly Hamitic peoples themselves were often deemed to have 'failed' as rulers, a failing that was sometimes explained by interbreeding with non-Hamites.
So, in the mid-20th century the German scholar Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) claimed that the Bantu race was formed by a merger of Hamitic and Negro races.
Meinhof, Carl: Die Sprache der Hamiten, Hamburg, 1912.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hamitic.htm   (1136 words)

  
 NOUN CLASSES - KISWAHILI GRAMMAR NOTES
The system used in this book was devised by Carl Meinhof in his study of a large number of Bantu languages.
Meinhof found 22 noun classes in the Bantu languages he studied.
No language was demonstrated to have all 22, but some classes are shared by all, e.g.
research.yale.edu /swahili/serve_pages/grammar/Noun_Classes.php   (2736 words)

  
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A characteristic of Bantu languages is that they use -ntu to refer to a man. ba is a plural in some dialects, becoming ba-ntu.
He and later Carl Meinhof did comparative studies of the Bantu language grammars.
They have been classified by Malcolm Guthrie in 1971 into groups according to geographical zones - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, P, R and S and then numbered within the group.
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 OSU Department of History
She is also interested in how German ideas about race and culture were transmitted to South Africa during approximately the same time period.
Her most recent article on that topic is "Carl Meinhof and the German Influence on Nicholas van Warmelo's Ethnological and Linguistic Writing, 1927-1935", which appeared in the December 2004 edition of the Journal of Southern African Studies.
In addition, she is the author of "Images of Race and Redemption: The Protestant Missionary Contribution to Carl Meinhof's Zeitschrift fuer Kolonialsprachen, which appeared in Le Fait Missionnaire in December 2004, as well as of several book chapters.
history.osu.edu /people/person.cfm?id=718   (266 words)

  
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If one is interested in the prehistory of Africa, one might turn to the work of the German scholar Carl Meinhof.
These conclusions were based on his idea that the language of the Hottentots showed certain resemblance’s to Hamitic languages such as Ethiopian present-day analyses, however seems to show that Meinhof’s theories are not tenable.
Greenberg, at Columbia University, is now at work on a classification of African language based on more modern techniques of linguistic analysis and hopes no draw up alternative hypotheses as to the prehistory of cultures in Africa.
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 AMU CHMA NEWSLETTER #23 (6/25/99) (continued)
#288 Meinhof, Carl: Ein magisches Quadrat auf einem Hausa-Amulett (A magic square on a Hausa amulet), Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen, 1923/24, 14, 224-226 (Cf.
We are dealing with a bordered or concentric magic square: taking away the successive borders, the smaller squares remain magic.
Meinhof calls it a Stifelius' square after Michael Stifel, who discussed this type of magic square in his 'Arithmetica integra' (1544).
www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/AMU/amu_chma_23a.html   (2149 words)

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