Publications

Publication details [#52438]

Samarin, William J. 2008. Convergence and the Retention of Marked Consonants in Sango: the Creation and Appropriation of a Pidgin. Journal of language contact thema II : 225–237.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language contact | language maintenance | pidgin | sound change

Language as a subject

Sango

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper explains how Sango, which has retained almost the whole Ngbandi phonological system, challenges claims that pidgins' sound inventories are small and that sound change in language contact often results in loss or assimilation in phonemic distinctions.