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Title: The phonology of A'ingae
Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán,ISO639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and nasal spreading, as well as (iv) stress, glottalisation, their morphophonology, and aspects of clause‐level prosody.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2314344
PAR ID:
10499877
Author(s) / Creator(s):
 
Publisher / Repository:
Wiley-Blackwell
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Language and Linguistics Compass
Volume:
18
Issue:
3
ISSN:
1749-818X
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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