“The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages” is selected as a Honorable Mention recipient of the Dartmouth Medal 2026

The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages (Oxford University Press, 2025), to which Associate Professor Daisuke Shinagawa contributed as a co-author, has been selected as a 2026 Honorable Mention recipient of the Dartmouth Medal awarded by the American Library Association (ALA).

The Dartmouth Medal is an internationally prestigious award presented annually by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of ALA, to the most outstanding reference work published during the year.

This volume is a comprehensive guide to the study of the Bantu languages, a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Incorporating the latest scholarly advances, it is the largest reference work of its kind on the Bantu languages. Organized into seven parts, it covers historical and typological background, cross-linguistic overviews across major research domains, analyses of individual grammatical phenomena, approaches grounded in historical-comparative linguistics, and grammatical sketches of individual languages.

Associate Professor Shinagawa contributed a chapter on the Kilimanjaro Bantu (Chaga) languages spoken around Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania.

2026 Dartmouth Medal Winner Announced
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