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Notes on the Diachronic Phonology of Nauruan
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, December 2022
- pp. 684-720
- 10.1353/ol.2022.0023
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Abstract:
This paper investigates the Nauruan reflexes of Proto-Micronesian phonemes. Nauruan participates in most reductive sound changes found elsewhere in Micronesian. The attrition patterns of *t and *k in Nauruan resemble similar developments in Eastern Chuukic. An unusual developments are shifts of major place of articulation, from coronal to velar, and from velar to labial. This paper contains a discussion of the reflexes of Proto-Oceanic palatals in Micronesian. A list of Kiribati loans in Nauruan is supplied.