African origin of classifier-prefixed nouns in extra-African languages : New evidence for Ruhlen's monogenesis theory of human languages and further analysis of Mongoloid dispersion

• Main Authors: Ohnishi, Koji, 54566
• Language: English
• Published: 新潟大学理学部 1998
• Subjects: human languages; African origin; classifier-prefix; Bantu; Mongoloid languages; Mayan; Pacific; eskimo*
• Online Access: https://niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/6890/files/13_55-75.pdf

Among African languages, noun classifier-prefix system is most typically and frequently found in Niger-Kordofanian language family, and less frequently in some groups of Afro-Asiatic family, but not found in Khoisan family. Search for extra-African evolutionary reflexes (cognates) of Niger-Kordofani...