comparative study of tone of West Ugandan Bantu Languages, with particular focus on the tone loss in Tooro
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natural language processingRecord type:
paper
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Shi
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Uni
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The aim of this paper is to try to explain how the Tooro system, which phonologically lacks tone, has come into being, by examining comparatively the tone system of each language itself and also by closely looking at the differences which exist among the Haya, Ankole and Nyoro systems (Kiga data insufficient) in order to look for phonetic reasons of the tone changes.