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VALENTE (P. José Francisco). GRAMÁTICA UMBUNDU, a Língua do Centro de Angola. Lisboa. 1964. - VALENTE (P. José Francisco) GRAMÁTICA UMBUNDU, a Língua do Centro de Angola . Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1964. 430, [2] pp.; 220 mm. Father José Francisco Valente, a Spiritan priest and collaborator of the Bantu Languages Section of the Ethnology and Ethnography Division of the Scientific Research Institute of Angola, was one of the leading scholars of Bantu languages in Angola during the late colonial period. Descriptive and systematic grammar of Umbundu, the Bantu language spoken by the Ovimbundu populations of the central plateau of Angola, one of the most important African languages in the territory. The work was published under the auspices of the Overseas Research Board, within the framework of ethnolinguistic studies promoted by the Portuguese authorities in the final period of their overseas territories. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate