African Language Structures

African Language Structures

This is a practical & authoritative survey of linguistic characteristics of a large & representative set of African languages. The book covers a wide array of languages & language phenomena in as much detail as possible without imposing an excessive burden on the reader. Tonal systems &a...

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Veröffentlicht in:American anthropologist 1975, Vol.77 (2), p.442-443
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