RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nasal Vowel, Consonant Harmony, Prenasalized Consonant

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RLST 2610
• Professor: John Kinsey

Document Summary

85 mc questions, 1 long answer question (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Ling 2040 language and gender (cid:12254) ful lls diversity requirement for a & s some multiple choice, some true false, some matching language analysis problem. 10 million speakers may be related to nearby aymara languages best thought of as dialect continuum for quechua. Quechua (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) o cial language in peru, bolivia, and ecuador. 3 vowels (a, i, u) no voiced/voiceless contrast. Guarani (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) most widely spoken an o cial language of paraguay, spoken both by europeans and by indigenous people heavily in uenced by missionaries and the jesuits. 6 vowels (+ nasal versions) inclusive/exclusive pronouns prenasalized stops circum xation attaches to both sides english doesn"t have it nasal harmony nasality spreads through the word triggered by a nasal vowel. 300 languages jungle makes it easier to be isolated.