Reconstruction talk:Proto-Bantu/ǹ-
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Descendants[edit]
@Metaknowledge Can you find unaltered descendants of the verbal prefix? Zulu has ngi- here, which is a compound of some kind (n-gi? n-ki?), and Swahili has ni- which is also not original. The Wikipedia article on Sotho concords is elaborate, but seems to contradict itself and the article Sotho verbs in that the table gives -N- as the subject concord, but the examples use ke. —CodeCat 23:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- Luganda has it unaltered. It's always a good language to check, as it's quite well described and fairly conservative. Note that in PB, it probably wasn't strictly *ǹ-, but *Ǹ- where N is a nasal homorganic to the following consonant. Also, PB probably had Meinhof's Rule operating, which is also still productive in Luganda. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:26, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- It's assumed that n always assimilates to m before a labial, so there's not really any need for a special notation. —CodeCat 00:31, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- Then you should note at WT:ABNT that *nk = ŋk, *nc = ɲc, etc. (just as BLR does). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- It's assumed that n always assimilates to m before a labial, so there's not really any need for a special notation. —CodeCat 00:31, 22 November 2016 (UTC)