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- Language Family: Bantu
- Topic #1: Noun Classes
- Topic #2: Morphology
Le préfixe nominal yasa
Le yasa, langue bantu de la côte équatoriale, est parlée au Cameroun et en Guinée
Équatoriale. Avec ses douze préfixes nominaux de base qui à la surface atteignent la trentaine,
cette langue compte treize classes nominales qui se répartissent en genres à une, deux ou trois
classes. Le yasa se caractérise également par l’absence de classes propres aux locatifs: les
catégories identifiées comme telles appartiennent plutôt aux classes 7 et 9. L’association du
préfixe nominal au radical nominal entraîne des règles phonologiques ou morphologisées qui
sont l’expression des processus suivants: l’épenthèse, la semi vocalisation, l’élision,
l’effacement, l’assimilation, la coalescence, l’affrication, la dépalatalisation, l’atterrissage
tonal et la simplification tonale.
Yasa which is a Coastal Bantu language is spoken in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
With twelve underlying noun prefixes and about thirty morphs at surface level, this language
has thirteen noun classes arranged in genders of one, two or three classes. One can notice
here, the absence of particular classes for locatives: the so-called categories belong to class 7
and class 9. The adjunction of the noun prefix to the stem entails phonological and
morphologized rules which express the following processes: epenthesis, glide formation,
elision, deletion, assimilation, coalescence, affrication, depalatalization, tone grounding and
tone reduction.