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Old Nubian Prosody and Assimilation
- Author(s):
- Vincent van Gerven Oei (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Union for Nubian Studies
- Subject(s):
- Linguistics, Africa
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- 13th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium
- Conf. Org.:
- University of Addis Ababa
- Conf. Loc.:
- Addis Ababa
- Conf. Date:
- May 4-6, 2017
- Tag(s):
- Nubian Studies, Old Nubian, phonology, African linguistics
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6W97Z
- Abstract:
- Old Nubian is a Nubian (North-Eastern Sudanic) language spoken in the Medieval Christian kingdoms of Nubia. Being a dead language, very little is known about its phonology, and previous studies by Hintze and Browne have remained unsatisfactory in this regard. Based on a detailed investigation of the behavior of loanwords from Byzantine Greek, this paper aims to provide a consistent approach to the morphophonological conditions underlying progressive and regressive assimilation patterns in Old Nubian and arrive at a preliminary reconstruction of Old Nubian syllable structure and suprasegmental phonology.
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- Status:
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