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The Tsani 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. | The Tsani 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. | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The following is a Tsani inventory of consonants, according to Émile d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. | The following is a Tsani inventory of consonants, according to Émile d'Ivoire, a model nowadays serving as standard when analysing the language. Émile analyses the Tsani inventory as unusual in that it has [[w:prenasalised consonants|prenasalised consonants]], as well as an ill-defined [[w:dorsal consonants|dorsal consonant]]. The consonantal phonology is fairly symmetrical, with the exception of lacking /p/. | ||
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|+'''d'Ivoire model''' | |+'''d'Ivoire model''' | ||
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! colspan="1" rowspan="2"|Bilabial | ! colspan="1" rowspan="2"|Bilabial | ||
!Dental | !Dental | ||
! colspan=" | ! colspan="3"|Alveolar | ||
! rowspan="2"| | ! rowspan="2"|Dorsal | ||
! rowspan="2"|Glottal | ! rowspan="2"|Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
!central | !<small>central</small> | ||
!<small>central</small> | !<small>central</small> | ||
!<small>lateral</small> | !<small>lateral</small> | ||
!<small>palatal</small> | |||
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! rowspan=" | ! rowspan="1" colspan="2" |Nasals | ||
|'''m''' [m] | |||
| colspan="2" rowspan="1"|'''n''' [n] | |||
|'''m''' | |||
| colspan="2" rowspan="1"|'''n''' | |||
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! rowspan="2"|Stops | ! rowspan="2"|Stops | ||
!<small> | !<small>prenasalised</small> | ||
|''' | |'''mb''' /ᵐb/ | ||
| colspan="2"|''' | | colspan="2"|'''nd''' /ⁿd/ | ||
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| '''ng '''/ᶮɟ ~ ᵑg ~ ᶰɢ/ | |||
|'''ʾ''' /ʔ/ | |||
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!<small>voiceless</small> | !<small>voiceless</small> | ||
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| colspan="2"|'''t''' /t/ | | colspan="2"|'''t''' /t/ | ||
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|''' | |'''k''' /c ~ k ~ q/ | ||
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! | ! rowspan="1" colspan="2"|Affricates | ||
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! | ! colspan="2"|Fricatives | ||
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|'''th '''/θ/ | |||
|'''s''' /s/ | |||
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|''' | |'''sh '''/ɕ/ | ||
|''' | |'''kh''' /ɕ ~ x ~ χ/ | ||
| '''h''' /h/ | | '''h''' /h/ | ||
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| '''y''' /j/ | | '''y''' /j/ | ||
|'''r''' / | | '''w''' /ɰʷ/ | ||
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! colspan="2" style="background: ;"|Trills | |||
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|colspan="2"|'''r''' /r/ | |||
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