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Douiret language

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Douiret
Chninni
Native toTunisia
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologdoui1234
Berber-speaking areas belonging to Kossmann's "Tunisian-Zuwara" dialectal group

Douiret (also called Douiri) is a Berber language variety spoken in Douiret in the southern part of mainland Tunisia.[1][2][3] Like all other varieties of Tunisian Berber, it is also referred to as Shilha. It is closely related to the Berber variety of Chenini.[1]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Dental Alveolar Post-alv./
Palatal
Velar Uvular Pharyn-
geal
Glottal
plain phar. plain phar. plain phar. plain lab.
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless t k () q
voiced b d g (ɡʷ)
Fricative voiceless f θ s ʃ x ħ h
voiced ð ðˤ z ʒ ɣ (ɣʷ) ʕ
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Trill r
Approximant j w
  • Most consonant sounds may also have geminated variants as [Cː].
  • Pharyngeal sounds /fˤ, mˤ, dˤ, zˤ, rˤ, nˤ, lˤ/ are mostly heard as allophonic variants of /f, m, d, z, r, n, l/ within intervocalic and pharyngeal positions.
  • Sounds /t, k/ may have aspirated allophones of [tʰ, kʰ] when in word-final and pre-consonantal positions.
  • /k, ɡ, ɣ/ may also have labialized allophones as [kʷ, ɡʷ, ɣʷ].[1]
Front Back
High i u
Mid (e) (o)
Low a
Phoneme Allophones Rules
/i/ [i] elsewhere
[iː] in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
[ɪ] when preceding geminated consonants
/a/ [a] elsewhere
[aː] in word-initial position when preceding a consonant
[æ] in word-initial position or when following pharyngealized consonants
[e] when preceding geminated consonants
[eː] when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions
/u/ [u] elsewhere
[uː] in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
[ʊ] when preceding geminated consonants
[o] when preceding pharyngealized consonants
[oː] when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions

References

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  1. ^ a b c Gabsi, Zouhir (2003). An outline of the Shilha (Berber) vernacular of Douiret (Southern Tunisia). Sydney: University of Western Sydney.
  2. ^ Gabsi, Zouhir (2011). "Attrition and maintenance of the Berber language in Tunisia". Journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2011 (211): 135–164. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2011.041.
  3. ^ Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2013). "Tunisia". In Steven Danver (ed.). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. pp. 688–689.