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The Tsani inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost people in the field being the Belgian linguist Émile d'Ivoire and the Scottish linguist John Glenn Crossing, an expert on Jivan languages. | The Tsani inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost people in the field being the Belgian linguist Émile d'Ivoire and the Scottish linguist John Glenn Crossing, an expert on Jivan languages. | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The following is a Tsani inventory of consonants, according to Émile d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. Émile analyses the Tsani inventory as unusual in that it has [[w: | The following is a Tsani inventory of consonants, according to Émile d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. Émile analyses the Tsani inventory as unusual in that it has [[w:ejective consonants|ejective consonants]], as well as an ill-defined [[w:dorsal consonants|dorsal consonant]]. The consonantal phonology is fairly symmetrical. | ||
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|+'''d'Ivoire model''' | |+'''d'Ivoire model''' | ||
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! rowspan="3"|Stops | ! rowspan="3"|Stops | ||
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!<small>voiceless</small> | !<small>voiceless</small> | ||
| | |'''p''' /p/ | ||
| colspan="2"|'''t''' /t/ | | colspan="2"|'''t''' /t/ | ||
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|'''k''' / | |'''k''' /k/ | ||
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!<small>ejective</small> | !<small>ejective</small> | ||
| | | '''b''' /pʼ/ | ||
| colspan="2"| | | colspan="2"| '''d''' /tʼ/ | ||
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| | | '''g''' /kʼ/ | ||
| | |[ʔ] | ||
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! rowspan="1" colspan="2"|Affricates | ! rowspan="1" colspan="2"|Affricates | ||
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|'''s''' /s/ | |'''s''' /s/ | ||
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|'''sh '''/ɕ/ | |'''sh '''/ɕ/ · '''y''' /ʝ/ | ||
|'''kh''' / | |'''kh''' /x/ | ||
| '''h''' /h/ | | '''h''' /h/ | ||
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| '''w''' /ɰ/ | | '''w''' /ɰ/ | ||
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