Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu

A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages. By contrast, three Bantu languages in northeastern Kenya (the northern Swahili dialects, Pokomo, Elwana)...

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Autor principal:	Derek Nurse
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1985
Materias:	dentals Proto-Bantu Bantu Swahili Pokomo Elwana Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c598eb9aaaf741b8aede3b5dfd7225442021-11-19T03:55:20ZDentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu10.32473/sal.v16i3.1075000039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/c598eb9aaaf741b8aede3b5dfd7225441985-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107500https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XA minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages. By contrast, three Bantu languages in northeastern Kenya (the northern Swahili dialects, Pokomo, Elwana) have acquired such a series, which thus merits explanation. There are three mechanisms involved: sounds along with loan vocabulary, (b) a simple phonological shift whereby inherited alveolars moved one place to become dental, and (c) a more complicated shift whereby inherited (pre) palatals bypassed an intervening alveolar series to become dental, a process little reported in the literature. It is hypothesised that these forms of denta1isation took place under historical conditions of contact with neighboring Cushitic communities--not the larger Eastern Cushitic communities of today (Somali, Orma), but rather the ancestral forms of what are now remnant languages, (probably) Southern Cushitic Dahalo and (possible) Eastern Cushitic Aweera. (a) the borrowing of loan 1.Derek NurseLibraryPress@UFarticledentalsProto-BantuBantuSwahiliPokomoElwanaPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 16, Iss 3 (1985)
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description	A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages. By contrast, three Bantu languages in northeastern Kenya (the northern Swahili dialects, Pokomo, Elwana) have acquired such a series, which thus merits explanation. There are three mechanisms involved: sounds along with loan vocabulary, (b) a simple phonological shift whereby inherited alveolars moved one place to become dental, and (c) a more complicated shift whereby inherited (pre) palatals bypassed an intervening alveolar series to become dental, a process little reported in the literature. It is hypothesised that these forms of denta1isation took place under historical conditions of contact with neighboring Cushitic communities--not the larger Eastern Cushitic communities of today (Somali, Orma), but rather the ancestral forms of what are now remnant languages, (probably) Southern Cushitic Dahalo and (possible) Eastern Cushitic Aweera. (a) the borrowing of loan 1.
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title	Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
title_short	Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
title_full	Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
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Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu

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