alliteral, adjective
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- EnglishShow more English, from alliterate.
obs., Grammar
Characterized by alliteration; an attribute first applied by the Revd W.B. Boyce to the Sintu (Bantu) group of languages. See also concord.
1833 S. Kay Trav. & Researches 280There is..one remarkable peculiarity in the language, which renders it difficult of acquirement by Europeans; and which, as my worthy brother Missionary Mr. Boyce observes, may be termed ‘the euphonic or alliteral concord. One principal word in a sentence governs the initial letters or syllables of the other words...Changes must be made in the initial letters or syllables of the word which is governed by this euphonic concord.’
1864 F.M. Müller Science of Lang. II. 12The Kafir, or, as Appleyard calls them, alliteral languages.
Characterized by alliteration; an attribute first applied by the Revd W.B. Boyce to the Sintu (Bantu) group of languages.
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