The Pepet Law in Philippine Languages: A Dissertation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Conant, Carlos Everett

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ISBN 10 : 133364101X ISBN 13 : 9781333641016

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The Pepet La win Philippine Languages. By Carlos Everett Conant, Lecturer of Indonesian Languages. Universty of Chicago. In the vocalism of Indonesian languages the original indifferent vowel plays an important role. Resembling the Hebrew shewa, and the obscure vowel of many I ndo-E uropean languages, it was so colorless and indefinite in pronunciation that it developed differently in different speech groups. In some languages it remained practically unchanged, as in Javanese, where it is called pepet Swhile in others it evolved into various and more or less definite vowel sounds, e. g., IN atep roof became Jav. atep, Mai. atap, Tag. dtip, and Bis. atiip. Brandstetter gives the following concise statement of the varied representation of pepet in several of the more important languages of I ndonesia: The Pepet Law: Where the IN parent speech (U rsprachc) had ane (called pepet in Javanese), OJ av., Tontb., Bug. and Karo also have ,M kb. and Mak. a. Bis. and Toba o. Tag. ,D ay. e, Mai. in final syllable a, mthe penultimate syllable e, MI g. in accented syllable e, in a syllable following the tone, i. The following table will illustrate the above law: I, Cebuan, and the Satnar-L eyte diakct. Mata-H ari ,L uzern 1908, p. 52. Unless otherwise indicated, uand oare interchangeable Philippine
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133364101X
• ISBN 13: 9781333641016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
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