Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu

Bernard Caron (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

Systematic tone alternations can be observed in the Geji language as spoken in Geji itself and Pelu, two villages situated at the foot of the Zaranda mountain in Bauchi State (Nigeria). This type of tone variation has been documented in other Chadic languages, e.g Kotoko and Ngamo.This paper aims at documenting this variation and accounting systematically for it with a set of simple phonological rules.

Mots clés: Linguistics; Tone mapping; Dialectology; Chadic languages; Nigeria languages

Domaines: Linguistique

Bernard Caron. Tonal Inversion in Geji and Pelu. Tourneux, Henry. Topics in Chadic Linguistics VII. Papers from the 6th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, September 22-23, 2011, 8, Rüdiger Köppe, pp.77-85, 2013, Chadic Linguistics · Linguistique Tchadique · Tschadistik 978-3-89645-527-7. ⟨halshs-01487220⟩