What happens to class when a language dies

Autores

  • G. Tucker Childs

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.v38i2.107289

Palavras-chave:

Mani, Buy, Bullom So, Noun class

Resumo

This paper presents the first documentation of the noun class system of the dying language Mani (buy), “Bullom So” in Ethnologue, a.k.a. Mmani, Mandenyi, etc.) spoken in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Mani has some few hundred speakers, all of whom speak either Soso (sus) or Temne (tem) as their everyday language.

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Publicado

2009-06-15

Edição

v. 38 n. 2 (2009): Studies in African Linguistics

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