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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The Kandi inventory of consonants is quite symmetrical, but is noteworthy in that it lacks a voiceless bilabial stop /p/. In D'Ivoires first model, he was mistaken and realised the velar approximant /ɰ/ as a variation of the long vowels. Comparative studies of the Ris and Jávva languages proved this to be wrong. | |||
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! colspan="1" rowspan="2"|Bilabial | |||
!Dental | |||
! colspan="3"|Alveolar | |||
! rowspan="2"|Dorsal | |||
! rowspan="2"|Glottal | |||
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!<small>central</small> | |||
!<small>central</small> | |||
!<small>lateral</small> | |||
!<small>palatal</small> | |||
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! rowspan="1" colspan="2" |Nasals | |||
|'''m''' /m/ | |||
| colspan="2" rowspan="1"|'''n''' /n/ | |||
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! rowspan="3"|Stops | |||
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!<small>voiceless</small> | |||
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| colspan="2"|'''t''' /t/ | |||
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|'''k''' /k/ | |||
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!<small>voiced</small> | |||
| '''b''' /b/ | |||
| colspan="2"| '''d''' /d/ | |||
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| '''g''' /g/ | |||
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! rowspan="1" colspan="2"|Affricates | |||
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|'''ts''' /t͡s/ | |||
|'''tl '''/t͡ɬ/ | |||
|'''tš '''/t͡ɕ/ | |||
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! colspan="2"|Fricatives | |||
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|'''s''' /s/ | |||
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|'''š '''/ɕ/ · '''y''' /ʝ/ | |||
|'''x''' /x/ | |||
| '''h''' /h/ | |||
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! colspan="2" style="background: ;"|Approximants | |||
|'''w''' /β̞/ | |||
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|'''l''' /l/ | |||
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|'''ǧ''' /ɰ/ | |||
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! colspan="2" style="background: ;"|Trills | |||
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|colspan="5"|'''r''' /ʀ~r/ | |||
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D'Ivoire standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language, as per his conclusion that there were three phonemic short vowels, /i/, /a/, /u/, 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. | |||
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!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> | |||
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> | |||
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! style="" |Close front unrounded | |||
| '''i''' /i/ | |||
| '''ī''' /iː/ [iː] | |||
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! style="" |Open back unrounded | |||
| '''a''' /a/ | |||
| '''ā''' /aː/ [ɔ] | |||
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! style="" |Close back rounded | |||
|'''u''' /u/ | |||
|'''ū''' /uː/ [u͜β̞] | |||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||