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Languages, Volume 10, Issue 2
February 2025 - 17 articles
Cover Story: An important set of sound changes affected the South Bantu languages through the impact of front vowels on following consonants, most notably under the form of the class 5 nominal prefix *i-. These consonant mutations have lacked a standard name until now, here called “Preceding-I effects”. This paper offers a detailed study of the relevant conditioning factor, calling attention to the understudied category of hiatus resolution in the history of Bantu languages. Although the reflexes in individual languages vary and levelling often reduces the number of surviving examples, indications of systematic PI-effects in all the subgroups of the South Bantu branch contrast with other Bantu branches and suggest that a common conditioning factor was present in Proto-South-Bantu. View this paper
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