Application of the comparative method to vocoid sequences in Nivkh

The Nivkh language family of Sakhalin Island and the adjacent mainland in Northeast Asia is generally considered to be without known external relatives. Since its internal diversity is relatively shallow – leading some authors to treat it as a single ‘language’ divisible only into ‘dialect’-level v...

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Main Author: Halm, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2017-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26631