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Revision as of 15:27, 1 November 2012
This is the Wiki page for Sereer.
Sereer a language of the Senegambian branch of Niger–Congo spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in The Gambia. It is the principal language of the Sereer people.
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Phonology
Main article: Phonological Inventory
Consonants
A tentative consonant inventory of Sereer Saalum is given below. Working orthography for a given symbol is indicated in parentheses following a symbol if the orthography differs from the IPA.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | V'less | p | t | c~ʧ (c) | k | q | ʔ (') |
| Voiced | b | d | ɟ~ʤ (j) | g | |||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | ||||
| Voiceless Implosive | ƥ | ƭ | ƈ | ||||
| Prenasalized | ᵐb (mb) | ⁿd (nd) | ᶮɟ (nj) | ᵑg (ng) | ᶰɢ (nq) | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ (ñ) | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | f | s | χ~h (x) | ||||
| Tap/Trill | ɾ~r (r) | ||||||
| Liquid | l | ||||||
| Glide | ʋ~β̞~w (w) | j (y) | |||||
Vowels
A tentative vowel inventory of Sereer Saalum is given below. Orthographic versions of vowels are given in parentheses.
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ~ ɪ (i) | u ~ ʊ (u) | ||||
| Mid | e ~ ɛ (e) | ɔ ~ o (o) | ||||
| Low | a~ə (a) | |||||
Vowel length is contrastive; all vowels have long versions.
Vowels after implosive consonants are sometimes creaky; this does not seem to be contrastive.
Spectrograms and Audio Samples of Consonants
Suprasegmentals
Serer makes use of stress. Stress is largely assigned metrically, with a preference for left-anchored iambs (if V-shaped prefixes are taken to be part of the noun's phonological word) or right-anchored trochees (if they are not). Some irregularities, especially concerning the frequent noun plural agreement prefix xa-, are yet to be worked out.
Loanword Phonology
Borrowed words show phonemes that are not normally present in Serer, like /y/ in [myr] 'wall' (Fr. mur), or /ʃ/ in [maʃin] 'machine, device' (Fr. machine).
Morphology
Verbal Morphology
Tense (and aspect) Paradigm Table
Inflectional Verbal Morphology
Derivational Verbal Morphology
Syntax
main clause word order and pronominalization
I'm not sure where this stuff really belongs, so I just made a page for it. Feel free to move it. -JM
Sentences with sound files Ignore these for now, I will relocate them. -- Oana 136.152.188.149 20:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC) Who is "I"? Faytak 23:24, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Valence patterns and alignment
Copular clauses and other copula-like things
Word Order
Word order in possessive constructions appears to be possessum-possessor, as seen in [muusnɛ noⁿdɛboᵑgɛ] 'a boy's cat' (040).
N-Adj order, as in [ino fop] 'all of us' (054), and [muus fodadaru] 'clumsy cat' (068)
Adpositions
Texts
File:121011G 067 Sereer time anecdote.wav
Other Pages
- MediaWiki Handbook - Bari grammar (old main page) - Recordings and transcriptions (Bari) - Bari lexicon
