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A tentative vowel inventory of Bari: ! [[Front vowel|Front]]

A tentative vowel inventory of Bari: ! [[Front vowel|Front]]

...a glottal stop plus a voiced implosive, with extra creak on the preceding vowel. ...ntrastive word initially, as there are no minimal pairs in this position. ‘Vowel initial’ words are preceded by a glottal stop in careful speech, but it m

...haracterized by a large inventory of consonants, particularly stops, and a vowel length distinction. The surface form of these segments is fairly predictabl The vowel inventory of Sereer Saalum is given below. Vowel length is contrastive; all vowels have long versions.

In this interest of vowel quality, I'll be re-checking some vowels of words we already have, and elic