Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic
A Comparative Study of Vowels, Consonants and Prosodies
Samenvatting
Based on the author's life-long research experience, this book unearths the linguistic history of 66 unwritten and under-researched Central Chadic languages in West- and Central Africa. It describes the complex historical development of the modern languages from the common proto-language and reconstructs 228 lexical items of their basic vocabulary.

