Cebaara | |
Nativename: | Senari |
States: | Ivory Coast |
Date: | 1993 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Senufo |
Fam4: | Senari |
Iso3: | sef |
Glotto: | ceba1235 |
Glottorefname: | Senari |
Cebaara (Tyebala), one of a cluster of languages called Senari, is a major Senufo language, spoken by a million people in Ivory Coast.
Cebaara has the following sound inventory:[1]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | k͡p | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡ͡b | |||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | |||||
voiced | v | z | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
Rhotic | r | |||||||
Lateral | l | |||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Oral vowels | Nasal vowels | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | ||
Close | i iː | u uː | ĩ ĩː | ũ ũː | |||
Close-mid | e eː | ə | o oː | ||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | ɛ̃ ɛ̃ː | ɔ̃ ɔ̃ː | |||
Open | a aː | ã ãː |