Person marking in South-West Mande languages: A tentative reconstruction
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natural language processingRecord type:
paper
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Kir
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Ope
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The article presents a brief comparative analysis of systems of person marking in the six languages of the South-Western group of the Mande family and a tentative reconstruction of the proto-language person markers. The paper includes data from the newly-discovered Zialo language recorded in 2010 by the Russian linguistic expedition to West Africa.
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