ABSTRACT

Hausa. k ’ak’a grandfather (cf. kaka harvest) bak’i strangers (cf. baki mouth) yak’i war t s ’un ts’ua birdt s ’ofo (and s ’ofo) old mants ’oroand s ’oro fear(cf. sooro mud house (flat-roofed)) s ’ara contemporary (cf. sara cut down)’y a ’ya children (cf. yaya older one) 293. Suto-Chuana group o f languages. In the Suto-Chuana

group of languages, the unaspirated affricates ts, t j are often —and tl always-ejective: the ejective nature of tl is much stronger and more easily recognized than in the case of the other two.