3L Summer School – Leiden 2010
Theory and practice of data collection for phonological analysis – Van der Veen, Medjo Mvé
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Appendix 2: Proto-Bantu phonology and noun morphology
Data taken from:
Schadeberg, Thilo C. (2003). Historical linguistics. In Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard (eds.)
The
Bantu Languages
. London: Routledge, 143-63.
Phonology
The reconstructed sound system.
A. Consonants.
p
t
c
k
b
d/l
y/j
g
m
n
ɲ
mp
nt
ɲ
c
ŋ
k
mb
nd
ɲ
j
ŋ
g
Notice: No fricatives have been reconstructed, but s/z are likely candidates for c/j. Prenasalized
consonants (homorganicity!) occur word-initially where prenasalization represents the nominal
prefixes of classes 9 and 10. In stems, NCs occur as C
2
but not as C
1
except for *m
ʊ
=nt
ʊ
‘person’.
Voiceless NCs are rare in stems even in C
2
position.
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