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Cerma language

Gur language of Burkina Faso From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Cerma (Kirma) is a Gur language of Burkina Faso. It is spoken by the Gouin people (sometimes called Ciramba or Gouin (Gwe, Gwen)).

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Phonology

Consonants

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  • Although /w/ is phonetically a labial-velar consonant, Lauber includes it in the dorsal/laryngeal column because its distribution is more like /k/ or /h/ than the labials or labial-velars.[2]
  • Lauber excludes //, //, and //N// from the continuant section because their distributions are different.[2]
  • // is nasalized [] "in a nasal context" and a voiceless alveolar lateral [] at the end of an utterance.[3]
  • // is a nasal tap [ɾ̪̃] "in a nasal context" and a voiceless tap [ɾ̥] at the end of an utterance.[3]
  • The archiphoneme //N// has the following allophones:[4]
  • /Nj/ also becomes [ɲ].[4]
  • Hürlimann and Pike (1985) note that the palatals are affricates, using the symbols č and j.[5]

Vowels

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  • Lauber treats nasalization as a feature of the syllable, not the vowel.[2]
  • In closed syllables, /i, u/ become near-close [ɪ, ʊ].[7]
  • In the last syllable of the nuclear element of the phonological word before /r/, /e, ɔ, o/ are lengthened [eː, ɔː, oː].[8]
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Notes

References

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