This volume provides comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa, examining scientific nomenclature, English and Afrikaans vernacular names, and indigenous African language names, including:
- Comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems across scientific, vernacular, and indigenous languages in southern Africa
- Historical examination of English bird names from Anglo-Saxon origins through contemporary standardization efforts
- Detailed study of Afrikaans bird names tracing development from Cape Dutch to modern usage
- Extensive documentation of African language bird names including semantic categories, cultural integration, and environmental contexts
- Analysis of scientific nomenclature examining etymological origins, semantic patterns, and interface with vernacular naming systems
This title has been co-published with UKZN Press. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This title offers comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa examining scientific nomenclature, vernacular names, and indigenous languages. Traces historical development and multilingual dynamics.
1. Introduction
2. Naming Systems
3. A Typology of Bird Names
4. The
First Names: Pelagic and Coastal Birds
5. Early English Bird Names
6. From
Latham to the Woodward Brothers: Early English Vernacular Names for Birds in
South Africa
7. English Bird Names in Southern Africa in the Twentieth
Century and beyond
8. From Aasvogel to Kolpensie: Afrikaans Bird Names
9.
African Bird Names: Names in Environments
10. The Underlying Meanings of
African Bird Names
11. The Development of Zulu Bird Names
12. The Semantics
of Scientific Names
13. Titihoia Melanoptera: The Interface between
Scientific Names and Vernacular Names
14. Neddicky, Piet-My-Vrou, Sakabula
and other Multilingual Names
15. Now and the Future 16 The Naming of
Individual Birds
17. Weaving the Complex Tapestry of Bird Names
Adrian Koopman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research focuses on onomastics, Zulu linguistics, and the interface between language and ornithology. He has contributed extensively to the development of standardized Zulu bird names through workshops conducted from 2013 to 2018 and has published on African language naming systems. Koopman's work combines linguistic analysis with cultural and environmental contexts, addressing questions of nomenclature, semantics, and multilingual dynamics in southern African ornithology. He received National Research Foundation grants for his research on Zulu bird naming systems.
Eckhart Buchmann is affiliated with Durban University of Technology, South Africa. His research interests include ornithological nomenclature, bird naming systems, and the historical development of vernacular bird names in southern Africa. Buchmann has contributed to the documentation and analysis of multilingual bird naming practices, examining the interface between scientific nomenclature and vernacular naming across English, Afrikaans, and African languages. His work addresses contemporary issues in ornithological naming including taxonomic changes and the evolution of standardized naming systems in the region.
