Reconstruction of the Ubangian personal pronouns

Kirill Babaev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), babaev@yandex.ru)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 8, 2012 - p.1-32

The present paper continues a series of publications devoted to the comparative analysis of person marking systems in Niger-Congo languages. The article examines person markers of the Ubangi languages of Central Africa and proposes a reconstruction of the pronominal paradigm for the proto-language.

Keywords: person marking, personal pronouns, Ubangian languages, Niger-Congo languages, African languages

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