![]() ![]() Keywords: South Khoisan languages Tuu languages click languages lexicostatistics basic lexicon onomasiological reconstruction. The main bulk of the paper is actually represented by the Appendix, in which I attempt to reconstruct the equivalents of the first 50 Swadesh list items for the three intermediate nodes of the Tuu family (Proto-!Ui, Proto-Nossob, and Proto-Taa). In the first part of the study, I survey the main data sources, identify the main obstacles to historical reconstruction in the Tuu domain, and make observations on some aspects of Tuu diachronic phonology. ![]() The paper is the first in a planned two-part series, whose main goals are to conduct a general lexicostatistical survey of the Tuu, or South Khoisan, family of languages to reconstruct a reliable approximation of the Swadesh wordlist for Proto-Tuu and to clarify certain as of yet unresolved issues about the internal classification of Tuu languages. ![]() National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow / Santa Fe Institute studies in Khoisan II/1: How to make a Swadesh wordlist for Proto-Tuu
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