BASAA
(Cameroon; Niger-Congo, Narrow Bantu)		 For more information about metathesis in this language, click on the following links:
Summary:
'h' metathesizes with a preceding consonant in the Indirective Causative forms.
Examples
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Examples:
(See Comments for key to special characters used.)
Unsuffixed Indirect Causative Nominalised
lE'l le'hla`  lE'lE^k 'cross'
te`N ti`hNa`  te`Ne`k 'tie'
a`t e`hda`  a`da`k  'unite'

cf.
ko'bo^l  ko'bla`ha` ko'bla`k 'peel'
pi'd i^p pi'dBa`ha`  pi'dBa`k  'hate'

Conditions:
No information currently available.
Motivation:
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Additional information:
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Comments:
Special Symbols:
E = mid central unrounded vowel (schwa)
'  = high tone (V' = vowel with high tone)
`  = low tone (V` = vowel with low tone)
^ = falling tone (V^ = vowel with falling tone)
N = velar nasal consonant
B = voiced bilabial implosive

Last updated: 1/11/2001
References:
  • Hobley, June. 1965. Bassa Verbal Formations. The Journal of West African Languages. Vol. II. No. 2. 39-50.
  • Lemb, Pierre & François de Gastines (1973). Dictionnaire Basaa-Francais. Douala: Collège Libermann.
  • Schmidt, Deborah. 1994. Phantom consonants in Basaa. Phonology 11. 149-178.
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