A Sketch of Phonetic and Phonological Systems of Afro-Asiatic Languages: Consonantal Features

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  • NAKANO Aki'o
    Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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  • アフロ・アジア語の音声・音韻 : 子音音素論(<特集>アフリカ諸語の音声)
  • アフロ・アジア語の音声・音韻--子音音素論
  • アフロ アジアゴ ノ オンセイ オンイン シイン オンソロン

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Abstract

This report roughly describes various consonant systems found in the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, alive and extinct, with their characteristic features. Comparison is made on the appearences of laryngeals (uvular, pharyngeal and glottal) and doubly articulated (most probably ejective in Proto-Afro-Asiatic) phonemes. The new types of double articulation such as uvularization, labialization, pre-glottalization, velarization, and pharyngalization, including implosives, pre-nasalation and even a click, are described in each section of the sub-families.

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