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A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic - Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic - Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages
belonging to the Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally
diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language
contact. This pioneering study explores the development of the
sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major branch of
the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from about
60 different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks
the specific phonological principles that underpin the Chadic
languages' diverse phonological evolution, arguing that their
diversity results to no little extent from historical processes of
'prosodification' of reconstructable segments of the
proto-language. The book offers meticulous historical analyses of
some 60 words from Proto-Central Chadic, in up to 60 individual
modern languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular
emphasis is on tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of
palatalisation and labialisation prosodies within a phonological
system that, on its deepest level, recognises only one vowel
phoneme */a/.
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