The phonology of A'ingae
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
February 2024
 

A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and nasal spreading, as well as (iv) stress, glottalization, their morphophonology, and aspects of clause-level prosody.
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Reference: lingbuzz/007820
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Published in: Language and Linguistics Compass
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