Retracing labial-velar consonants in Mbum (Adamawa)

Labial-velar consonants, which are typologically rather rare in the languages of the world, have been used for both genealogical and areal classification purposes. The claim that their occurrence mainly signals areal contact (e.g. Güldemann 2008), has been criticized by scholars (cf. Cahill 2017, C...

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Main Authors: Klaus Beyer, Janika Kunzmann
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Hamburg University Press 2022-12-01
Series:Afrika und Übersee
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Online Access:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikaunduebersee/article/view/270