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Person marking in South-West Mande languages: A tentative reconstruction

Domaine:

natural language processing

Type de record:

paper
Créateur:
Kir
Éditeur:
Ope
Hôte:
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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doi.org

Languages

MandinkaManinkakan, EasternNomaandeTobangaZialo

Licenses

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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