We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
On the origin of Gamale Kham labial-palatal approximants.
- Authors
Wilde, Christopher P.
- Abstract
The development of the Gamale Kham labial-palatal approximants /ɥ/ and /ɥ̊/ has previously been attributed to the loss of the Proto-Kham initial *p- or the coda *-p. The vowels /i/ and /e/ which occurred in the adjacent syllable nucleus were rounded, resulting in the front rounded vowels /y/ and /ø/. Following this development, /w/ and /j/ merged to /ɥ/ in Gamale and Eastern Parbate Kham (Watters 2002; 2004; 2005). This study evaluates this theory and suggests two alternative explanations: that Proto-Kham may have had either two front rounded vowels *y and *ø, or a *ɥ phoneme. In the second case, the work refers to a possible correspondence between a Proto-Kham *ɥ and the Proto-Tibeto-Burman complex *jw.
- Subjects
/XAM language; LABIALITY (Phonetics); PHONEME (Linguistics); VOWELS; TIBETO-Burman languages
- Publication
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0731-3500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ltba.40.1.03wil