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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:

Consonants

• /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.

Vowels

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

References

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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