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Wilhelm Bleek
Wilhelm Bleek
Wilhelm Bleek
Born
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek

(1827-03-08)8 March 1827
Berlin, German Confederation
Died17 August 1875(1875-08-17) (aged 48)
Mowbray, Cape Colony
Burial placeWynberg Cemetery
OccupationGerman linguist
ChildrenDorothea Bleek

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀxam and !kun texts. A short form of this eventually reached press with Specimens of Bushman Folklore, which Laurens van der Post drew on heavily.

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Wilhelm Bleek

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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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Lucy Lloyd

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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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Bleek

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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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Bantu languages

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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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Click letter

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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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Bantu peoples

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"humans". It was first introduced into modern academia (as Bâ-ntu) by Wilhelm Bleek in 1857 or 1858 and popularised in his Comparative Grammar of 1862....

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Kru people

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medical and spiritual using pharmaceutical and spiritual remedies. Wilhelm Bleek classified the Kru language with the Mandingo family, and in this he...

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Latin Americans

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Brazil 2009. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2011. Wilhelm Bleek (2003). "Auslandsdeutsche" [Germans abroad] (in German). German Federal...

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Specimens of Bushman Folklore

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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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Languages of Africa

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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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Dorothea Bleek

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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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National Front of the German Democratic Republic

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Iportale". Eugene Register-Guard October 29, 1989. p. 5A. Kurt Sontheimer & Wilhelm Bleek. The Government and Politics of East Germany. New York: St. Martin's...

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March 8

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inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882) 1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (d. 1875) 1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese...

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Volkskammer

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Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 Kurt Sontheimer & Wilhelm Bleek. The Government and Politics of East Germany. New York: St. Martin's...

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List of anthropologists

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Catherine L. Besteman Theodore C. Bestor Lewis Binford Evelyn Blackwood Wilhelm Bleek Maurice Bloch Anton Blok Franz Boas Tom Boellstorff Paul Bohannan Dmitri...

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Evolution of languages

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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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Hamerkop

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state that other birds help it build its nest. The ǀXam informants of Wilhelm Bleek said that when a hamerkop flew and called over their camp, they knew...

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Southern Cone

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Veneza (in Portuguese)". Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Wilhelm Bleek (2003). "Auslandsdeutsche" [Germans abroad] (in German). German Federal...

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List of South Africans

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Bain, geologist (1797–1864) Peter Beighton, geneticist (1934–2023) Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (1827–1875) Robert Broom, palaeontologist (1866–1951) Sydney...

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1827

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March 7 – John Hall Gladstone, English chemist (d. 1902) March 8 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) March 25 – Stephen Luce, American admiral...

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August 17

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1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818) 1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827) 1897 – William Jervois...

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Laurens van der Post

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Bushman Folklore (1910), collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, and Mantis and His Hunter, collected by Dorothea Bleek. Van der Post described the Bushmen...

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Krumen people

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formation was more complex involving both maritime and shore communities. Wilhelm Bleek classified the Kru language with the Mandingo family, and in this he...

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Click consonant

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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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How Art Made the World

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unusual features. 19th century interviews with the San by German linguist Wilhelm Bleek reveal the importance of trance within their culture, an observation...

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Carl Meinhof

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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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1875

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Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1795) August 17 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) August 25 – Charles Auguste Frossard, French...

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German Brazilians

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Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2015. Wilhelm Bleek (2003). "Auslandsdeutsche" [Germans abroad] (in German). German Federal...

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