Consonant Phonemes of Proto-East-Cushitic

By Undena Publications

This paper is a preliminary attempt to reconstruct the consonant system of Proto-East-Cushitic (PEC)one of the four branches of the Cushitic family. Data are taken from some twenty-odd languages including unpublished material on a variety of hitherto little known languages. After discussing a number of general problems raised by the phonological comparison of the East Cushitic languages, 23 consonants are reconstructed for the inventory of the proto- language and the evidence for the reconstructions is presented in the form of cognate sets and correspondence rules which map the proto-phonemes onto the individual reflexes. The method employed is that of comparative linguistics as traditionally employed in Indo-European linguistics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089003916X
• ISBN13: 9780890039168
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Undena Publications
• Weight: 3.13 lbs.