Hara

Hara (/hɑɹə/, native: fòhàràà /fòhàɾàː/) is a South Semitic language.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

		Labial	Coronal	Palatal/ Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Stop	tenuis	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	prenasalized¹	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑɡ
	implosive	ɓ	ɗ	ʄ	ɠ
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ	s	ʃ		h
	voiced	β	z
Approximant		w	l	j	ɰ
Tap/Trill			ɾ

Notes:

¹ In native words, tenuis and voiced stops are in complementary distribution, with voiced stops occuring after nasals (which are always homorganic) and tenuis stops occuring otherwise. Therefore, prenasalized stops can be considered to underlyingly be tenuis stops preceded by homorganic nasals. However, they have been phonemized due to the introduction of nasal/voiceless stop clusters (including non-homorganic clusters) in loanwords.

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
High	i, iː		u, uː
Mid	e, eː		o, oː
Low		a, aː

Diphthongs do not exist in native words.

Nasals can be syllabic.

A long vowel consists of two moras. A syllabic nasal is considered a mora.

Tones

A mora can have either a high tone or low tone. High tone is considered the default/unmarked form.

Morphophonology

Prenasalization

When a stem-initial tenuis stop is preceded by a nasal, it merges with the nasal to become the corresponding prenasalized stop.

Syntax