Eggon
- Language Family
- Niger-Congo
- Subgroup
- —
- Area
- —
Summary
Underlying /egoN/ is realized in Eggon as [eogoĢ].
Type(s) of metathesis
| Type | Status | Optionality | Position | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. CV | Both/unknown | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-internal |
Case types and qualities
-
- CV
-
- C:
- Any
- V:
- Any
Examples
See summary.
Conditions
No conditions could be found
Motivations
Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation is proposed to be the cause of this metathesis by Blevins and Garrett (1998).
Symbols
Comments
Only one mentioning by Ian Maddieson (p.c.).
Bibliography
Blevins, Juliette, and Andrew Garrett. 1998. The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis. Language 74.3 (September): 508–556. doi:10.2307/417792