RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reduplication, Syllable
9 Aug 2016
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Malagasy most spoken language in madagascar unrelated to other african languages related to hawaiian, maori, malay, indonesian, tagalog, rapa nui. 12 branches with 1200 languages (cid:12254) migration 3000 to 5000 years ago why did they travel and not want to stay on the main land? (cid:12254) phonology (cid:12254) most have small sound system. Hawaiin has 8 consonants (english has 21 consonants but 24 sounds) this hawaiin lengthens sounds consonant clusters are rare majority prefer cvcv words tend to end with a vowel = open syllable languages. Tagalog uses inclusive/exclusive 1st pronoun, two di erent versions of we to say whether the hearer is included.
