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Article: Some Origins of Kota -j(-).
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Murray Emeneau here continues his inquiries into the phonological history of the lesser-known Dravidian languages.
1. A statement of conditioned developments of [[blank].sup.*]1 in the Dravidian language Kota has not yet been undertaken except in a preliminary way. That [[blank].sup.*]-1(1)i is represented by Ko.-j in several items has been noted by several scholars; the nearest approach to complete statement is that by Subrahmanyam 1983: 87, [sections]6.3.5; and 404, [sections]34.1.2. However, it is possible to make a more complete collection of material from DEDR (and to add from later-collected field work an entry that is found only in the Nilgiri languages) ...