The Drum Language of the Tumba People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger T Clarke (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1934 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-48 |
| Publication date | 1934-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/216650 |
| OpenAlex | W2064206255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The drum language of the Bantu tribes living in the Equatorial forest is a system of signals beaten with two sticks on a hollowed wooden drum which gives out two notes corresponding to the two tones of the vowels of the language. Use of the drum is restricted to men but is now entirely secular. The signals represent the tones of the syllables of conventional phrases of a traditional and highly poetic character. The phrases are sufficient in number that the code can be used for a large variety of messages, furnishing a means of instantaneous communication throughout a radius of several miles
Acoustics · Archaeology · Bantu languages · Character (mathematics) · Code (set theory) · Drum · Geometry · Linguistics · Physics · Programming language · Speech recognition · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1957 - 2015 (59) |
| Highly cited | No |