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Clement Martyn Doke

South African linguist (1893–1980)

  • Fame40.4
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  • Wikipedia191
Lived 1893–1980, aged 87South Africa
South AfricaSouth AfricaWritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    11 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1893–1980
    Aged 87
  • Awards
    1
    recognised work
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Updated 2026-07-02

Clement Martyn Doke 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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