Abbie Hantgan Sonko

List of John Benjamins publications for which Abbie Hantgan Sonko plays a role.

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Hantgan Sonko, Abbie 2025 The Small Bang: A pilot study investigating the origins of a language and population isolate through loan wordsInvestigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 142–175 | Chapter
Language isolates, often viewed as remnants of past linguistic diversity, are predominantly spoken at the edges of dominant linguistic areas. This study explores the origins of the Bangime isolate and its Bangande speakers. By correlating loan words associated with agriculture with… read more