The morphological differences between noun classes can probably be traced back to a simple case of allomorphy. At a certain point in the history of an ancestor of Tübatulabal, all class A nouns ended in a vowel, while all class B nouns ended in a consonant. (Class C forms are few in number and have a more complicated origin.) The absolute suffix in this language was *-t, which lenited intervocalically, leading to -l in Tübatulabal class A nouns (compare cognates ʈ͡ʂ in Serrano, r in Tongva.) See (Voegelin 1935) harv error: no target: CITEREFVoegelin1935 (help)[which?] and (Manaster Ramer 1992). Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1992). "Proto-Uto-Aztecan Phonology: Evidence From Tübatulabal Noun Morphophonemics". International Journal of American Linguistics. 58 (4): 436–446. doi:10.1086/ijal.58.4.3519778. JSTOR3519778. S2CID147964960.
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The morphological differences between noun classes can probably be traced back to a simple case of allomorphy. At a certain point in the history of an ancestor of Tübatulabal, all class A nouns ended in a vowel, while all class B nouns ended in a consonant. (Class C forms are few in number and have a more complicated origin.) The absolute suffix in this language was *-t, which lenited intervocalically, leading to -l in Tübatulabal class A nouns (compare cognates ʈ͡ʂ in Serrano, r in Tongva.) See (Voegelin 1935) harv error: no target: CITEREFVoegelin1935 (help)[which?] and (Manaster Ramer 1992). Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1992). "Proto-Uto-Aztecan Phonology: Evidence From Tübatulabal Noun Morphophonemics". International Journal of American Linguistics. 58 (4): 436–446. doi:10.1086/ijal.58.4.3519778. JSTOR3519778. S2CID147964960.
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The morphological differences between noun classes can probably be traced back to a simple case of allomorphy. At a certain point in the history of an ancestor of Tübatulabal, all class A nouns ended in a vowel, while all class B nouns ended in a consonant. (Class C forms are few in number and have a more complicated origin.) The absolute suffix in this language was *-t, which lenited intervocalically, leading to -l in Tübatulabal class A nouns (compare cognates ʈ͡ʂ in Serrano, r in Tongva.) See (Voegelin 1935) harv error: no target: CITEREFVoegelin1935 (help)[which?] and (Manaster Ramer 1992). Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1992). "Proto-Uto-Aztecan Phonology: Evidence From Tübatulabal Noun Morphophonemics". International Journal of American Linguistics. 58 (4): 436–446. doi:10.1086/ijal.58.4.3519778. JSTOR3519778. S2CID147964960.