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===Vowels=== | |||
D'Ivoire standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language, as per his conclusion that there were | D'Ivoire standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language, as per his conclusion that there were four phonemic short vowels, /i/, /a/, /u/, /ɔ/ and three phonemic "long" vowels. The quality of the long vowels is however rarely realised as the same as their short counterparts. It is likely that they once only differed in length, but such is no longer the case. | ||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 550px; text-align:center;" | {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 550px; text-align:center;" | ||
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! style="" |Open back unrounded | ! style="" |Open back unrounded | ||
| '''a''' /a/ | | '''a''' /a/ | ||
| '''ā''' /aː/ [ɔ | | '''ā''' /aː/ [æ] | ||
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! style="" |Open-mid back rounded | |||
| '''o''' /ɔ/ | |||
| '''ō''' /ɔː/ | |||
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! style="" |Close back rounded | ! style="" |Close back rounded | ||
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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Noun class specifers== | ==Noun class specifers== | ||
There are 9 noun classes in Kandi. They are distinguished by the specifier they use, which is one of few grammatical number dependent elements in the language. | There are 9 noun classes in Kandi. They are distinguished by the specifier they use, which is one of few grammatical number dependent elements in the language. | ||