A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF NDUT VOWEL HARMONY

A diachronic analysis of Ndut vowel harmony

Ndut is spoken in Senegal and belongs to the Cangin languages, a subgroup of the (West-) Atlantic languages (Sapir 1971).Unlike the other Cangin languages Noon, Laala and Saafi, Ndut, as well as closely related Pal or, exhibits apparently bidirectional vowel harmony.However, a phonological analysis suggests that there are two independent phenomena

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