The fate of the Benue-Congo velar nasal in Bantoid

Proto-Benue-Congo has been reconstructed both with a simple velar nasal *ŋ and with the velar nasal as part of a *ŋg structure. The loss of the simple velar nasal has been noticed as a feature of Bantu languages but has not been studied in other Bantoid groups. This paper considers the lexemes for w...

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Main Author: Jeffrey Wills
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Hamburg University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Afrika und Übersee
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Online Access:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikaunduebersee/article/view/303