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Labialization and the so-called sibilant anomaly in Tigrinya

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Rainer M. Voigt
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In Tigrinya, the cardinal numbers from 5 to 9 show a hushing sibilant instead of the hissing sibilant which is found in the corresponding ordinal numbers, i.e., 5th to 9th, and the multiples of ten, i.e., 50 to 90. We cite the forms as given by W. Leslau (1941: 127 ff.)

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , October 1988 , pp. 525 - 536
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1988

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