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Vowel harmony in Igbo and Diola-Fogny

By Ringen Catherine O.

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Linguistics Foreign
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Studies in African LinguisticsVolume 10, Number 3, December 1979. – pp. 247-259.Although both Igbo and Diola-Fogny have vowel harmony systems in which the harmonic feature is [Advanced Tongue Root], superficially they are very different. Aoki [1968] suggests that Igbo vowel harmony is similar to vowel harmony in Uralic and Altaic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian whereas Diola-Fogny has a dominant-recessive system like that found in Nez-Perce. However, analysis of vowel harmony in Igbo and Diola-Fogny reveals that these two languages actually have identical vowel harmony rules; the superficial differences result from a different distribution of [+ATR] vowels in the two languages.

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