Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster
1. IntroductionThe Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) is a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in a contiguous area covering parts of southern Gabon, southern Congo-Brazzaville, southwestern Congo-Kinshasa and northern Angola including Cabinda. According to phylogenetic classifications rely...
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines
2022
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| Crynodeb: | 1. IntroductionThe Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) is a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in a contiguous area covering parts of southern Gabon, southern Congo-Brazzaville, southwestern Congo-Kinshasa and northern Angola including Cabinda. According to phylogenetic classifications relying on basic vocabulary (de Schryver et al. 2015; Grollemund et al. 2015; Bostoen & de Schryver 2018a), the KLC constitutes a discrete sub-clade of West-Coastal Bantu (WCB) languages (Vansina 1995)... |
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