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Article: Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Including the Caucasus). Two vols.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Including the Caucasus). Two vols. Edited by ALAN S. KAYE; with advice of PETER T. DANIELS. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1997. Pp. 1041 + maps. $119.50.
The Phonologies of Asia and Africa is a compilation of studies of languages chosen from a region extending from central Africa to the Caucasus. Volume one includes articles on Semitic (the more extensively covered family in the collection) and other Afro-Asiatic languages. Volume two includes articles on Asian Indo-European, Turkic, and Caucasian languages, and various unrelated languages.
The approaches taken to the phonologies are not uniform. This is necessary given ...