Cebaara language

Cebaara
Cebaara
Senari
Native to	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(860,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Senufo Senari Cebaara; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sef
Glottolog	ceba1235

Cebaara (Tyebala), one of a cluster of languages called Senari, is a major Senufo language, spoken by a million people in Ivory Coast.

Phonology

Cebaara has the following sound inventory:^[2]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	k͡p	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
Fricative	voiceless	f	s
Fricative	voiced	v	z
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Approximant				j		w

/b/ can be heard as a voiced fricative when in intervocalic position.
Voiceless stops /p, t/ can occur as slightly voiced before /i/ as
/s/ can be palatalized before an /i/, and can be recognized as a post-alveolar fricative before another vowel in /siV/ position.
Palatal sounds /c, ɟ/ can also be heard as affricate sounds within free variation.
/ŋ/ can also be heard as a post-nasal within word final positions.^[3]

Vowels

Oral vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Close-mid	e eː	ə	o oː
Open-mid	ɛ ɛː	ə	ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

Vowels /e, o/ can be realized as when in shortened form.

Nasal vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	ĩ ĩː		ũ ũː
Open-mid	ɛ̃ ɛ̃ː		ɔ̃ ɔ̃ː
Open		ã ãː

References

^ Cebaara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Soro, Tenena Moise (1986). On Senari Tense and Aspect: An Analysis of the Cebaari of Korhogo. Northwestern University.
^ Roulon-Doko, Paulette (1968). Essai d'une phonologie du tyembara, dialecte senoufo parlé à Korhogo. Bulletin de la SELAF (Société des Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France), 9.) Paris.

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[e18-1] Cebaara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Soro, Tenena Moise (1986). On Senari Tense and Aspect: An Analysis of the Cebaari of Korhogo. Northwestern University.

[3] Roulon-Doko, Paulette (1968). Essai d'une phonologie du tyembara, dialecte senoufo parlé à Korhogo. Bulletin de la SELAF (Société des Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France), 9.) Paris.

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Cebaara
Senari
Native to	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(860,000 cited 1993)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Senufo Senari Cebaara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`sef`
Glottolog	`ceba1235`