Somali Sounds and Inflections

ádi ADJECTIVE allomorph allophones analysis Andrzejewski apico apico-dental aqan Arabic ARTICLE BASE Bell Benadir BMSC1 BMSC2 BSOM Burao camel centiseconds citation forms CLMSC1 consonants contrasts corpora Cushitic Cushitic languages DERIVATION diphthong DUMMYM Eastern Michigan University enclitic Examples include excl following syllable fricatives Gadabursi GENDER grammar Hargeisa IMPERFECTIVE impv sg incl inflectional morphology informants internal open juncture Intervocalically inventory investigator IRREG isá Isaq keni Kirk large number lenis stops Linguistics long vowels low accent major dialect marker Mogadiscio morphemes morphophonemic mrkIb Mudug nasals Nouns Object Pronouns occurs elsewhere past tense Peace Corps person pharyngeals phoneme is realized pitch contours PLURAL postulation Prepositions PRES Rahanweyn Reinisch sequences sgal sheep and goats ship short vocoids short vowels shortest vocoids Somali language Somali Republic speakers Spectrograms speech sub-dialect SUBJUNCTIVE SUPRASEGMENTALS syntactic transcription transformational grammar verb phrase vocabulary items vocalization system voiced vowel is realized wheeled device