The gender system of Longuda

Abstract This article describes the gender system of Longuda. Longuda class marking is alliterative and does not distinguish between nominal form agreement marking. While it thus appears to be a prototypical example traditional Niger-Congo “noun-class” system, this identity encoding makes look morpho-syntactic rather than lexical. points formerly independent status exponents classification, which similar classifier less canonical. Both types hosts involve two formally functionally differing allomorphs, inform historical reconstruction noun classification in various ways.