Thilo C. Schadeberg
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thilo C. Schadeberg plays a role.
Article
1994 Spirantization and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in Bantu Sound Change, Dominicy, Marc and Didier Demolin (eds.), pp. 73–84 | Article
Abstract. Many Bantu languages have the balanced seven-vowel system i i e a c u u. It is the system that one would, on internal evidence, reconstruct for proto-Bantu. Many other Bantu languages have a reduced five-vowel system i e a c u. The five-vowel systems are historically almost always the… read more