TY - JOUR
T1 - Jarawan Numerals
T2 - Implications for History and Internal Classification
AU - Green, Christopher R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - This article provides an overview of the numeral systems of Jarawan languages, an understudied group of languages spoken in Nigeria, and formerly in Cameroon. Lexical patterns and morphological micropatterns observed within this subset of the lexicon have implications for our understanding of Jarawan history, supporting the idea that there were two migrations of Jarawan speakers from Cameroon into Nigeria and suggesting that these migrations may have happened at very different times. This study complements others in demonstrating the value of incorporating linguistics, alongside archaeology, bioanthropology, and genomics, as a proxy in studies of paleodemography.
AB - This article provides an overview of the numeral systems of Jarawan languages, an understudied group of languages spoken in Nigeria, and formerly in Cameroon. Lexical patterns and morphological micropatterns observed within this subset of the lexicon have implications for our understanding of Jarawan history, supporting the idea that there were two migrations of Jarawan speakers from Cameroon into Nigeria and suggesting that these migrations may have happened at very different times. This study complements others in demonstrating the value of incorporating linguistics, alongside archaeology, bioanthropology, and genomics, as a proxy in studies of paleodemography.
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U2 - 10.1353/anl.2022.a942069
DO - 10.1353/anl.2022.a942069
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85210868346
SN - 0003-5483
VL - 64
SP - 136
EP - 164
JO - Anthropological Linguistics
JF - Anthropological Linguistics
IS - 1-2
ER -