Preliminary report on the project for an Etymological dictionary of the Angas-Sura group of Chadic languages
Journal cover Lingua Posnaniensis, volume 66, no. 2, year 2024
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Keywords

African linguistics
Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
etymology

How to Cite

Takács, G. (2025). Preliminary report on the project for an Etymological dictionary of the Angas-Sura group of Chadic languages. Lingua Posnaniensis, 66(2), 129–132. https://doi.org/10.14746/linpo.2024.66.2.7

Abstract

The brief report announces the current work on the forthcoming first two fascicles of an etymological dictionary elaborating the Afro-Asiatic background of a Chadic language group, one of the first ones in this genre in the history of Chadic linguistics.

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