Tone splitting and Gwandara ethnohistory
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Studies in African Linguistics
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This paper addresses the following linguistic/ethnohistorical question: Is Gwandara an independent millennium-old sister language of Hausa, as implied by most Chadic language classifications, or is it, as suggested by oral history, a relatively recent offshoot of Hausa that has undergone massive, contact-induced change? In other words, is the relationship of Gwandara to Hausa comparable to that of Frisian and English or to that of Krio and English? A key to the solution of the problem lies in the comparative analysis of the tonal systems of the two languages.
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Newman, Paul. 1985. Tone splitting and Gwandara ethnohistory, in Précis from the 15th Conference on African Linguistics, ed. by Russell G. Schuh, pp. 233–237. (Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 9).
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