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|nativename = '' | |nativename = ''Kāndi tsūyi'' | ||
|pronunciation = [ | |pronunciation = [kandi t͡suβ̞ʝɪ] | ||
|region = West Africa | |region = West Africa | ||
|states = Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso | |states = Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso | ||
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''' | '''Kāndi''', or '''Tsan''' (''kāndi tsūyi'' or ''tsani tsūyi'') is a language spoken by the Tsan people in Western Africa. It belongs to the Tanisi language family and is thus distantly related to the [[Ris]] language. Tsani is a heavily [[w:agglutinative language|agglutinating]] with a complex verbal morphology. The language has repeatedly been analysed as lacking [[w:nouns|nouns]] and [[w:adjectives|adjectives]] altogether, in favour of [[w:verb|verb]]s. Phonologically it exhibits [[w:ejective consonants|ejective consonants]], which are also realised as voiced stops in some dialects. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The Kandi 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. 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, ±. | The Kandi 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. 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, ±. | ||
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|'''ts''' /t͡s/ | |'''ts''' /t͡s/ | ||
|'''tl '''/t͡ɬ/ | |'''tl '''/t͡ɬ/ | ||
|''' | |'''tš '''/t͡ɕ/ | ||
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! colspan="2"|Fricatives | ! colspan="2"|Fricatives | ||
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|'''th '''/θ/ | |'''th/θ '''/θ/ | ||
|'''s''' /s/ | |'''s''' /s/ | ||
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|''' | |'''š '''/ɕ/ · '''y''' /ʝ/ | ||
|''' | |'''h''' /x/ | ||
| '''h''' /h/ | | '''h''' /h/ | ||
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| '''w''' /ɰ/ [w] | | '''w''' /ɰ/ [w] | ||