2020/01/01 by Maarten Kossmann · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #African Studies and Geopolitics #Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
paper · doi:10.4000/lla.277
openalex publication_date 2020/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Over the last decades, our insights in the phonological history of Berber and the reconstruction of its earlier stages greatly evolved. This is thanks to an emergent discussion and to new data on a number of languages that are crucial to reconstructing Proto-Berber, most importantly the works by Catherine Taine-Cheikh on Zenaga. In this article, I will provide an overview of the results and challenges in the reconstruction of Proto-Berber phonology.