Clement Martyn Doke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clement Martyn Doke

linguist

Date of Birth: 16-May-1893

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1980

Profession: linguist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Clement Martyn Doke

  • Clement Martyn Doke (16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.
  • Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.
  • A most prolific writer, he published a string of grammars, several dictionaries, comparative work, and a history of Bantu linguistics.

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