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' b p t j ch x kh d th r s sh dh c g gh f q k l m n ny w h y | ' b p t j ch x kh d th r s sh dh c g gh f q k l m n ny w h y | ||
===Vowels=== | ====Vowels==== | ||
'''Shaqlooyka''' | '''Shaqlooyka''' | ||
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aa ee ii oo uu | aa ee ii oo uu | ||
===Diphthongs=== | ====Diphthongs==== | ||
ay aw ey oy ow | ay aw ey oy ow | ||
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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
====Sandhi==== | ====Sandhi==== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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Revision as of 20:55, 3 January 2017
Af Mexee is a Somali language.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Shibliyooyka
' b p t j ch x kh d th r s sh dh c g gh f q k l m n ny w h y
Vowels
Shaqlooyka
a e i o u
aa ee ii oo uu
Diphthongs
ay aw ey oy ow
aay aaw eey ooy oow
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ny /ɲ/ | ||||||
| Stop consonant | voiceless | (p) | t /t̪/ | k | q | ' /ʔ/ | |||
| voiced | b | d /d̪/ | dh /ɖ/ | ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ch /tʃ/ | |||||||
| voiced | j /dʒ/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | sh /ʃ/ | kh /x/ | x /ħ/ | h | ||
| voiced | p /β/ | th /ð/ | gh /ɣ/ | c /ʕ/ | |||||
| Approximant | l | y /j/ | w | ||||||
| Trill | r /r~ɾ/ | ||||||||
Vowels
Af Mexee has five vowel articulations that all contrast frontness/backness and vowel length. There is little change in vowel quality when the vowel is lengthened.
There are five diphthongs that also occur in front and back, long and short versions, except for /ɞi/, which does not occur in the back series.
| Front series | Back series | Orthography | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close front unrounded / Near-close near-front unrounded |
i | iː | ɪ | ɪː | i | ii |
| Close-mid front unrounded / Open-mid front unrounded |
e | eː | ɛ | ɛː | e | ee |
| Near-open front unrounded / Open back unrounded |
æ | æː | ɑ | ɑː | a | aa |
| Open-mid central rounded / Open-mid back rounded |
ɞ | ɞː | ɔ | ɔː | o | oo |
| Close central rounded / Close back rounded |
ʉ | ʉː | u | uː | u | uu |
| First element is front | First element is back | Orthography | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long |
| æi | æːi | ɑɪ | ɑːɪ | ay | aay |
| æʉ | æːʉ | ɑu | ɑːu | aw | aaw |
| ei | eːi | ɛɪ | ɛːɪ | ey | eey |
| ɞi | ɞːi | ɔɪ | ɔːɪ | oy | ooy |
| ɞʉ | ɞːʉ | ɔu | ɔːu | ow | oow |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Syllable structure is (C)V(C)
Morphophonology
Sandhi
Morphology
Pronouns
Nouns
Definite: -ka (masculine), -ta (feminine) -> subject to Sandhi rules
Plural: -ooyn (definite: -ooyka)