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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The Kandi inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost | The Kandi inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost scholar in the field being the Belgian linguist Émile d'Ivoire. This page uses a standard notation where C is a consonant, N a nasal consonant, and V is a vowel. Features are indicated by square brackets [ ] and plus or minus signs, ±. Phonemic sounds are marked with slash brackets / / and more deeply analysed sounds are marked with square brackets [ ]. | ||
===Phonemic inventory of vowels and consonants=== | ===Phonemic inventory of vowels and consonants=== | ||
The following is the Kandi inventory of consonants, as analysed by d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. | The following is the Kandi inventory of consonants, as analysed by d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. | ||
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|'''u''' /u/ | |'''u''' /u/ | ||
|'''ū''' /uː/ [u͜β̞] | |'''ū''' /uː/ [u͜β̞] | ||
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