The origin of front vowel nominal prefixes in Berber" Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

Author(s):
Putten, M. van (0000-0003-4670-0937)
Published
2016
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Besides the regular noun prefix a-/ta- most Berber languages possess a much less common prefix i-/ti- or e-/te-. This paper examines the origin of these prefixes, and shows that they were originally phonetically conditioned allophones of the a-/ta- prefix.

Date issued
2016
Language
English
Is part of
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1887/3201941