infrequentale (family possession) 99: high and low vowels as one class as opposed to mid vowels in determining vowel harmony
- Where found
- Swahili and perhaps other Bantu languages (Niger-Congo)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- segment classes: vowel harmony
- Keywords
- vowels, high, low, mid
- Type
- infrequentale (family possession)
- Universals violated
- none
- Source
- mentioned in
Lyovin 1997 : 219
e.g., applicative suffix -i-/-e- in Swahili:
pik-i-a, ruk-i-a, fany-i-a vs. end-e-a, som-e-a
‘cook’, ‘jump’, ‘do’ vs. ‘go’, ‘read’