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Somali phonology

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rather than the vowel of the syllable. A long vowel or a diphthong consists of two morae and can bear two tones. Each mora is defined as being of high or low tone. Only one high tone occurs per word and this must be on the final or penultimate mora. Particles do not have a high tone. (These include
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The tone system distinguishes both grammatical and lexical differences. Differences include numbers singular and plural (a grammatical distinction), and masculine and feminine genders (a grammatical and sometimes also lexical distinction). One example is
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Nilsson, Morgan, and Laura J. Downing. "Somali vowel qualities and vowel harmony domains." In North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 47), Paris, France, June, pp. 24-26. 2019.
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prepositions, clitic pronouns for subject and object, impersonal subject pronouns and focus markers.) There are therefore three possible "accentual patterns" in word roots.
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in which words join, undergoing phonological processes such as elision. In Somali it is sometimes obligatory and sometimes it is dependent on the speech style.
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Clusters of two consonants do not occur word-initially or word-finally, i.e., they only occur at syllable boundaries. The following consonants can be geminate:
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is connected with tone. The high tone has strong stress; the falling tone has less stress and the low tone has no stress.
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Two vowels cannot occur together at syllable boundaries. Epenthetic consonants, e.g. and , are therefore inserted.
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On a long vowel or diphthong, a sequence of low-high is realised as high-high. (Occasionally, it is a rising tone.)
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is often pronounced with breathy voice and may be partially devoiced. Between vowels it may be a single tap.
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The question of the tone system in Somali has been debated for decades. The modern consensus is as follows.
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Somali has five vowel, each of them are elongated and represented orthographically as double vowels.
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When a vowel occurs in word-initial position, a glottal stop () is inserted before it.
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On a long vowel or diphthong, a sequence of high-low is realised as a falling tone.
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When needed, the conventions for marking tone on written Somali are as follows:
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quality for some speakers. It is sometimes realised as a flap between vowels.
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Phonetically there are three tones on long vowels: high, low and falling:
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is often realized as when in a stressed intervocalic position. As in “Ma
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is often realized as when in a stressed intervocalic position. As in “To
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Root morphemes usually have a mono- or di-syllabic structure.
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All vowels are nasalised before or after a nasal consonant.
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Tones on long vowels are marked on the first vowel symbol.
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Lexical prominence in Somali can be classified under a
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is often realized as in the alluvial planal dialects.
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Phonological changes occur at morpheme boundaries (
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Coronal
Post-
alveolar

Velar
Uvular
Pharyn-
geal

Glottal
Nasal
m
n
Plosive
voiceless

k
q
ʔ
voiced
b

ɖ

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