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REVIEWS Journal ofAfrican Languages and Linguistics 3 (1981) REVIEWS Kiyoshi Shimizu, A Comparative Study of the Mumuye Dialects (Nigeria). (Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde, Serie A: Afrika, 14.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1979.114 pp., 3 maps. DM 22. Reviewed by Raymond Boyd We must thank Dr. Shimizu for an excellent study of a type which is absolutely essential for the advancement of comparative studies of the Adamawa group. It is well known that similar processes of sound change often appear independently or conjointly in languages of a given family (or geographical region) and may, in certain cases, even be cyclical. It is therefore of great help to have available comparisons, such äs this one, of language or dialect groups where the degree of differentiation is relatively small, and where one can be relatively sure of the küid of diachronic phenomena which have affected the most recent history of the group. The comparison here is based on little more than the "100 basic items" of Swadesh's word list (although the author has made an extensive study of one of the dialects surveyed). This means that in certain cases there are not sufficient data for one to determine whether one is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Languages and Linguistics de Gruyter

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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics , Volume 3 (2) – Jan 1, 1981
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0167-6164
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Journal ofAfrican Languages and Linguistics 3 (1981) REVIEWS Kiyoshi Shimizu, A Comparative Study of the Mumuye Dialects (Nigeria). (Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde, Serie A: Afrika, 14.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1979.114 pp., 3 maps. DM 22. Reviewed by Raymond Boyd We must thank Dr. Shimizu for an excellent study of a type which is absolutely essential for the advancement of comparative studies of the Adamawa group. It is well known that similar processes of sound change often appear independently or conjointly in languages of a given family (or geographical region) and may, in certain cases, even be cyclical. It is therefore of great help to have available comparisons, such äs this one, of language or dialect groups where the degree of differentiation is relatively small, and where one can be relatively sure of the küid of diachronic phenomena which have affected the most recent history of the group. The comparison here is based on little more than the "100 basic items" of Swadesh's word list (although the author has made an extensive study of one of the dialects surveyed). This means that in certain cases there are not sufficient data for one to determine whether one is

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