Cebaara (Tyebala), one of a cluster of languages called Senari, is a major

Senufo language The Senufo or Senufic languages (''Senoufo'' in French) has around 15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of Ivory Coast, the south of Mali and the southwest of Burkina Faso. An isolated language, Nafaanra, is also spoken in the west o ...

, 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 ̬, t̬* /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 ͡ʃ, d͡ʒwithin free variation. * /ŋ/ can also be heard as a post-nasal � ̃within word final positions.

Vowels

* Vowels /e, o/ can be realized as �, ʊwhen in shortened form.

References

Senari languages Languages of Ivory Coast {{Senufo-lang-stub br:Senareg