Bonny Sands

Biographic Data

ID3832832
NAMEBonny Sands
GIVEN NAMESBonny
FAMILY NAMESands
SIGNATURESANDS B
AFFILIATIONSNorthern Arizona University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing

    Open AccessA M Fehn, Bonny Sands et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2025References: 2

    Lexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. Here we explore patterns of vocabulary transfer between languages from three families (Kx’a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi) comprising the linguistic unit commonly referred to as Southern African Khoisan. In our data set, 20% of 1,706 roots are shared between at least two families. By applying a carefully chosen set of linguistic and extralinguistic criteria, we…

  • Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact

    Brigitte Pakendorf, Hilde Gunnink et al.ARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2017

    Click consonants are one of the hallmarks of “Khoisan” languages of southern Africa. They are also found in some Bantu languages, where they are usually assumed to have been copied from Khoisan languages. We review the southern African Bantu languages with clicks and discuss in what way they may have obtained these unusual consonants. We draw on both linguistic data and genetic results to gain insights into the sociocultural processes that may ha…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for

    Open AccessBonny SandsARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2009

    Author’s Introduction African languages have played an important role in the development of linguistic theory but their role in the fields of historical linguistics and linguistic typology has been less prominent. Africa’s linguistic diversity has been long underestimated given the dominance of the four‐family model proposed by Joseph Greenberg. Criticism of this model has long held among specialists in some of Africa’s smaller and lesser‐known l…

  • Africa's Linguistic Diversity

    Open AccessBonny SandsARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2009

    African language classification in the latter half of the 20th century has been dominated by Joseph Greenberg's work classifying African languages into four linguistic genetic groupings: Afroasiatic, Niger‐Kordofanian, Nilo‐Saharan, and Khoisan. Current research indicates that there are a minimum of 20 unrelated African language families or isolates. Africa's linguistic diversity will remain poorly documented unless significant efforts are made t…

  • Differences in airstream and posterior place of articulation among Nǀuu clicks

    Open AccessAmanda L Miller, J Brugman et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2009Cited by: 5References: 18

    This paper describes the consonant inventory of the endangered southern African language Nǀuu. Our novel approach to segment classification accounts for all 73 Nǀuu consonants with just four phonetic dimensions (place, manner, phonation, airstream) and does away with the phonetically empty categoryclick accompaniment. We provide ultrasound data showing that the posterior constrictions in clicks are not produced at the 'velar' place of articulatio…

  • Kung as a linguistic construct

    Open AccessAmanda Miller-Ockhuizen, Bonny Sands et al.ARTICLELanguage & Communication1999Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The phonetic structures of Hadza

    Open AccessBonny Sands, Ian Maddieson et al.ARTICLEStudies in African Linguistics1996Cited by: 4

    Hadza is one of three East African languages with clicks. Previous field repons on this language have disagreed on several of its phonetic chanacteristics, including the number and nature of the clicks. This paper-based on acoustic and aniculatory analyses of data collected in recent fieldwork-presents a more detailed picture than any previous work. Special attention is given to the articulation of the click types and the acoustic features of the…