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  Unisa Online - clement martyn doke biography
Clement Martyn Doke was born in England in 1893.
Doke's A Grammar of the Lamba Language was accepted for a Master of Arts degree at the University of South Africa.
Doke stimulated the development of African linguistic studies in South Africa and elsewhere and made a vast contribution to the methodology of African linguistic analysis and description.
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  ClĂ©ment Marot: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Clement Marot praises him, and Ronsard was careful to exempt him with one or two others...
Jean was himself a poet of considerable merit, and held the post of escripvain (apparently uniting the duties of poet laureate and historiographer) to Anne of Brittany[?].
The boy was "brought into France"--it is his own expression, and is not unnoteworthy as showing the strict sense in which that term was still used at the beginning of the 16th century--in 1506, and he appears to have been educated at the university of Paris, and to have then begun the study of law.
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Doke (1893-1980): Clement Martin Doke is arguably the greatest scholar South Africa has been privileged to have had in its history up to the present.
Doke's editorship of the Bantu Treasury Series, and his advocacy of translating works into one or another of the Bantu languages opened the way for other publishers to take an interest in Bantu literature.
Doke was remarkably a man of foresight and vision in this instance, despite his profoundly religious alignments.
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 Clement Martyn Doke Information
Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.
Doke's report "'Report on the unification of the Shona dialects" (1931) was an attempt to resolve conflicts about the orthography of Shona.
Doke devised a unified orthography based on the Zezuru, Karanga and Manyika dialects.
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· Doke, Clement Martyn (1931), A Comparaitve Study of Shona Phonetics, University of the Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg.
· Doke, Clement Martyn (1935), Bantu Linguistic Terminology, Longmans, London.
· Doke, Clement Martyn (1954), The Southern Bantu Languages, Oxford University Press, London and NY.
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 African Languages - ninemsn Encarta
Koelle's information came from freed slaves living in the British West African protectorate of Sierra Leone.
Twentieth-century scholars, such as the German linguists Carl Meinhof and Diedrich Westermann, the South African linguist Clement Martyn Doke, and such British linguists as Ida Caroline Ward and Malcolm Guthrie, have made substantial contributions to the knowledge of African languages and the relationships of these languages to one another.
The American linguist and anthropologist Joseph H. Greenberg significantly revised earlier notions of the groupings of African languages, although some modifications and refinements of his 1963 classification can be expected from the increasing number of scholars in the field.
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I) (It is possible that the articles and book reviews and a poem signed C. In this review may not necessarily have been written by Clement Martyn Doke, but rather by a C. Drennan, who was also a professor at the University College [later Witwatersrand University] in Johannesburg in the 1920s.
But perhaps it should be noted that for decades Clement Martyn Doke signed for several decades his book reviews in Bantu Studies (later African Studies) with the insignia C. (The Journal was launched in October 1921 by Rheinallt Jones [1884-1953] and was its Editor).
IV) BOOK REVIEWS BY C. (Upon Doke joining the Editorial Board in 1942 Bantu Studies was immediately renamed African Studies).
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 Doke - new and used books
An account of the journey undertaken by C.M. Doke and his father, the Reverend Joseph J. Doke, from South Africa to the area known as Lambaland in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1913, and of Doke's subsequent residence among the Lamba people during a seven-yt i period as a missionary.
Doke, Clement Martyn - Contributions to the History of Bantu Linguistics.
DOKE, CLEMENT M. Lambas of Northern Rhodesia: A Study of Their Customs and Beliefs.
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 CBOLD Bibliography: full citations
Doke's comments accompanying all works cited provide a helpful guide to their linguistic value.
Doke, Clement Martyn, Grant, E. Graded Zulu exercises
Doke, Clement Martyn, Malcolm, D. M., Sikakana, J. English-Zulu dictionary
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