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Plain text

Moroz, George (2021). “Nasalization”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1. Ed. by George Moroz, Michael Daniel, Konstantin Filatov, Timur Maisak, Timofey Mukhin, Irina Politova, Elena Shvedova, Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. https://lingconlab.ru/tald.

BibTeX

@incollection{moroz2021,
  title = {Nasalization},
  author = {George Moroz},
  year = {2021},
  editor = {George Moroz and Michael Daniel and Konstantin Filatov and Timur Maisak and Timofey Mukhin and Irina Politova and Elena Shvedova and Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato},
  publisher = {Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University},
  address = {Moscow},
  booktitle = {Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1},
  url = {https://lingconlab.ru/tald},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6807070},
}

General chapter: Phonology

Nasalized vowels are a common feature of Andic and Tsezic languages, however some researchers report a sporadic final n-delition that leads to the development of nasalized vowels in other branches (e.g. Bezhta, (Comrie et al. 2015)).

References

Comrie, Bernard, Khalilov, Madzhid, Khalilova, Zaira. (2015). A grammar of Bezhta. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.