A Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Akan Fish Names

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, University of Education, language: English, abstract: This work seeks to analyse Akan fish names. The author will highlight the phonological processes that is highlighted in the fish naming. These processes include vowel harmony, assimilation and syllable structure. In regard to vowel harmony, not all the words conform to the vowel harmony rule. Syllable structure plays a significant role in these fish names. The etymology and linguistic associations of names are grasped intuitively without conscious knowledge of semantic roots. Names are very crucial to human existence as they help us to make distinctions among creatures or things.