Cormac Anderson

Part of the problem here is that the original is a prosodic account. If you have no way of listing the prosodies in the database, then you have no way...

I would remark that, if you don't mark the prosodies, /ʔw/ is also phonemic, as the source considers it parallel to /ʔ/ initially when a word has w-prosody. This is...

It was more in the way of an "also", rather than a "but". I concur with your reading of the source. If you also consider loanwords then /f/, /h/, /z/...

In many Chadic languages, palatalisation and labialisation affect both consonants and vowels in a given domain. So you have a root like /tsar/ that can be palatalised (under some morphological...