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Kukuya language

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Syllables are primarily CV, with some CwV and CjV; vowel-initial syllables do not occur. Roots (not counting nominal prefixes and the like) are of the forms CV, CVV, CVCV, CVVCV, and CVCVCV. In the latter case, the middle vowel is neutralized. There are only six medial consonants,
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posits both tone and stress, with tone being high or low, though not every syllable is assigned a tone: there are five word-tone patterns in the language. Vowels may carry two tones to accomplish this.
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suggests that this is due to a conflict between labialization and the spread front vowels. The velar stop is word initially and typically between vowels; there is a similar alternation with and .
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by the Teke people and would allow air to flow during the occlusion; this is particularly pertinent considering that one of the words with this consonant,
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argues against this analysis. Diachronically, Kukwa affricates derive from stops before close vowels or vowel sequences, and
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may be either or , apart from the word "with", which is always . The labiodental nasal is realized as before
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Prenasalized voiceless consonants are aspirated. Depending on speaker and region, the sound represented by
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argues against this analysis. corresponds to in neighboring Teke languages. Cj sequences such as
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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Given its rarity, it is worth providing some minimal pairs with other consonants:
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Cw sequences are rare and only occur before unrounded vowels; they include
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of the Congolese plateau. It is the only language known to have a phonemic
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derives from *k rather than *p. The labiodentals are not found before
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Phonemic neutralization may occur when consonants are prenasalized:
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Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
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Le kukuya, langue teke du Congo: phonologie, classes nominales
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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might be better characterized as a labiodental nasal
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are also rare (a dozen cases) and only occur before
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Index

Kukuya language (Papua New Guinea)
Republic of the Congo
Plateaux Department
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Zone B
Teke
Writing system
ISO 639-3
kkw
Glottolog
teke1280
Guthrie code
IPA
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Unicode
Help:IPA
[kĂŹkĂœkÈłÄ]
Teke
dialect continuum
labiodental nasal
Bilabial
Labio-
Dental

Alveolar
Palatal

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