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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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    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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  • Nǁng 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...
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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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    family and stayed until January 1875 during which she was interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. She was from the Katkop mountains north west of Brandvlei...
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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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    "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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    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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    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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    Polyglotta Africana The Languages of Africa Karl Lepsius Lionel Bender Wilhelm Bleek Christopher Ehret Carl Meinhof Diedrich Westermann Joseph Greenberg...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Bain, geologist (1797–1864) Peter Beighton, geneticist (1934–2023) Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (1827–1875) Robert Broom, palaeontologist (1866–1951) Sydney...
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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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  • "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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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