Dorsal harmony in Kavalan and Basay
Channel: Southeast Asian Language Conferences at UH Manoa
Date: 2022-06-10

Presenter: Li-Yang Tseng

This poster discusses diachronic development of Proto-Austronesian (PAN) *k in two Formosan languages, Kavalan and Basay. Diachronically, their proto-language underwent a dorsal harmony, thus having two reflexes of PAN *k. This conclusion against Li’s (2004:365) argument on the sound change of PAN *k in these two languages.