Documenting the Bantu Languages of the Last Hunter-Gatherer Communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai Regions (DRC): A Pioneering Phonetic and Laboratory Phonological Study Ghent University
Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. As for sounds, phonetic documentation is thus essential to preserve this disappearing heritage, and to learn more about our linguistic and cognitive evolution. This is particularly crucial in those areas of the world where language density is higher, such as the ...