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Meinhof, Carl

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Meinhof, Carl

(born July 23, 1857, Barzwitz, near Schlawe, Pomerania, Prussia—died Feb. 10, 1944, Greifswald, Ger.) German scholar of African languages. A specialist in the Bantu languages who also studied Khoisan and other African language families, he was one of the first to treat African languages in terms of phonetics and morphology. His books include Outline of the Phonetics of the Bantu Languages (1899) and Principles of the Comparative Grammar of the Bantu Languages (1906).



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