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    Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages...
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  • biblical scholar Karl Theodor Bleek (1898-1969), German politician Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875), German linguist Memphis Bleek or Bleek, stage name of New York...
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    geologist (1797–1864) Peter Beighton, geneticist (1934–2023) Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (1827–1875) Robert Broom, palaeontologist (1866–1951) Sydney Brenner...
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  • language. Much of the scholarly work on ǀXam was performed by Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguist of the 19th century, who studied a variety of ǀXam spoken at...
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    Specimens of Bushman Folklore is a book by the linguist Wilhelm H. I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd, which was published in 1911. The book records eighty-seven...
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    ⟨ǀ⟩ ⟨ǁ⟩ ⟨ǃ⟩ ⟨ǂ⟩, were created by Karl Richard Lepsius and used by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, who added ⟨ʘ⟩. Also influential were Daniel Jones, who...
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    Bushmen (the San people) of southern Africa. Dorothea Bleek was the fifth daughter of Wilhelm Bleek, a pioneering philologist studying the languages and...
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    Lucy Lloyd (category Linguists from South Africa)
    Lloyd (7 November 1834 – 31 August 1914) was the creator, along with Wilhelm Bleek, of the 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts. Lucy Catherine...
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  • Derek (United States, 1926–2018), creole languages, origin of language Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (Germany, 1827–1875), languages of Africa Bloch, Bernard...
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    the group was not coined but "noticed" or "identified" (as Bâ-ntu) by Wilhelm Bleek as the first European in 1857 or 1858 , and popularized in his Comparative...
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    Carl Meinhof (category Linguists from Germany)
    studies of the Bantu languages, building on the pioneering work of Wilhelm Bleek. In his work, Meinhof looked at the common Bantu languages such as Swahili...
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    Karl Richard Lepsius (category 19th-century linguists)
    1884. Lepsius list of pyramids Standard Alphabet by Lepsius Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek Citations Hayen, Todd (2016-12-19). Ancient Egypt and Modern...
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  • (1837–1909) married philologist and librarian Wilhelm Bleek. Lucy Lloyd (1834–1914) renowned traveller and African linguist. William Llewelyn Lloyd married Baroness...
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    August Schleicher (category Historical linguists)
    evolution theory (Three essays by August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel and Wilhelm Bleek). Amsterdam-Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company (1983) Liba...
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    hypothesis" by Lepsius, fellow Egyptologist Christian Bunsen, and linguist Christian Bleek. This theory connected the "Hamites", the originators of Hamitic...
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  • Sigismund Wilhelm (1823–1902)". Solleveld, Floris (2020). "Language Gathering and Philological Expertise: Sigismund Koelle, Wilhelm Bleek, and the Languages...
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  • (2020:151) is as follows: Wilhelm Bleek's reconstruction consisted of sixteen noun prefixes. Carl Meinhof adapted Bleek's prefixes, changing some phonological...
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  • and Philological Expertise: Sigismund Koelle, Wilhelm Bleek, and the Languages of Africa". Les Linguistes allemands du XIXème siècle et leurs interlocuteurs...
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    the larger ethnolinguistic phylum named by 19th-century European linguists. Bleek's coinage was inspired by the anthropological observation of groups...
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    Polyglotta Africana The Languages of Africa Karl Lepsius Lionel Bender Wilhelm Bleek Christopher Ehret Carl Meinhof Diedrich Westermann Joseph Greenberg...
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  • misunderstood as Bantu, Oroko, Balondoba-Nanga, and Balondoba-Diko. Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguist, used the term Bâ-ntu or Bantu, meaning people or humans, to...
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  • "The Representation of Clicks", The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wilhelm Bleek (1862) A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages, vol. 1, pp...
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    the noted anthropologist Dorothea F. Bleek, daughter of renowned German linguist Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek. In 1944 she donated to the McGregor...
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  • streets for the funeral procession 3 days later. March 8 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1888) June 13 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer...
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  • Karl Hermann Bitter Matthew Black Friedrich Blass Orrin Dubbs Bleakley Wilhelm Bleek Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg Raimund Bleischwitz Immanuel Bloch Joachim...
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  • Johannes Theophilus Hahn (category Linguists from South Africa)
    was corresponding quite early with colleagues such as C.F. Wuras and Wilhelm Bleek. After finishing his doctorate, he stayed briefly in the Cape where...
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  • international rugby union player Lucy Lloyd (1834–1914) creator along with Wilhelm Bleek of the 19th century archive of ǀXam and !kun texts Marie Lloyd (1870–1922)...
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  • Theodor of Bavaria, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1795) August 17 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) August 25 – Charles Auguste Frossard, French general...
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  • manager (d. 1941) 1868 – King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936) 1873 – Dorothea Bleek, South African-German anthropologist and philologist (d. 1948) 1874 – Robert...
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  • disappeared in the 1910s, but with substantial documentation by German linguist Wilhelm Bleek. Nigerian language extinctions throughout the century include Basa-Gumna...
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