Tracing sound change in Nasa Yuwe: evidence from Andaqui and Misumalpan languages
This paper is a contribution to the historical phonology of Nasa Yuwe, a presumable language isolate of southwestern Colombia. It shows how a lexical comparison with two presumably unrelated language groups can help to reconstruct a sound change of *a > e in Nasa Yuwe. The two language groups...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositório: | Revista Liames (Online) |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8673031 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8673031 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Nasa yuwe Andaqui misumalpas Lingüística histórica Cambio fonético Nasa Yuwe Línguas Misumalpas Linguística histórica Mudança fonética Misumalpan languages Historical linguistics Sound change |
| Resumo: | This paper is a contribution to the historical phonology of Nasa Yuwe, a presumable language isolate of southwestern Colombia. It shows how a lexical comparison with two presumably unrelated language groups can help to reconstruct a sound change of *a > e in Nasa Yuwe. The two language groups compared with Nasa Yuwe in this paper are Andaqui, likewise of western Colombia, and the Misumalpan family of Central America. Whereas *a is documented as such in the Andaqui and Misumalpan forms, data discussed in this paper suggest that it has changed to e and related vowels in Nasa Yuwe. |
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