Silt'e language

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Silt'e ( ስልጥኘ [ siltiɲɲǝ ] or የስልጤ አፍ [ jǝsilte af] ) is a Semitic language that is spoken by the Silt'e in south-central Ethiopia.

Dialects

Dialects of Silt'e are Azarnat, Enneqor ( Inneqor ) Ulbarag ( Urbareg ) and Wolane.

Phonology

Silt'e has a number of consonants that are fairly typical of Ethiopian Semitic languages.

In addition to voiceless and voiced consonants exist ejective consonants.

The vowels in Silt'e differ significantly from the typical seven vowels in languages ​​such as Amharic, Tigrinya and Ge'ez. In Silt'e the five short and five long vowels occur which are typical of the neighboring ostkuschitischen languages ​​from which possibly comes the Silt'e system. There is a considerable difference in the allophoner short vowels, particularly A; The most common of allophone / a /, [ ə ] is shown in the table. All short vowels may [ [ # Vowel Phonation | devoiced ] ] preceded by a paragraph.

The tables below show the phonemes of Silt'e. In this article, a Abwandelung of among linguists who work on Ethiopian Semitic languages ​​, customary system is used for the representation of Silt'e consonants. However, this system differs somewhat from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Where is the IPA symbol is different, this is made clear by square brackets. The signs / p / and / ʔ / ( glottal stop) are written in brackets because they play only a minor role; / p / is found only in a few words in Azarnat dialect and / ʔ / is often, as in Amharic, omitted.

Font

At least since the 1980s Silt'e was written with the Ethiopic script, which was originally developed for the now -extinct Ge'ez language and is also used for Amharic and Tigrinya. The Ethiopian script differs between seven vowel qualities, so it is difficult to write with it a language that has ten different vowels ( five long and five short ).

In practice, this likely will not affect the understanding, because there are relatively few minimal pairs, which differ in the vowel quantity.

In written Silt'e the seven Ethiopian vowels are as follows mapped to the ten - Silt'e vowels.

  • ä → a: አለፈ Alafa, he gave further '
  • U → u, uu: ሙት courage, death ', muut, thing '
  • I → ii: iin ኢን, eye '
  • I end of the word: መሪ mari 'friend'
  • I at the end of a word stem of a noun: መሪከ marika, his friend '
  • I as a suffix in an impersonal verb in the perfect tense: ባሊ baali, said people '; በባሊም babaalim, even when people said '
  • I ( except the above ): እንግር ingir, foot '
  • Consonant, the vowel is not followed: አስሮሽት asroošt, twelve '
Language family Bilabial consonant Labiodental consonant Dental consonant Alveolar consonant Palatal consonant Velar consonant Glottal consonant Voice (phonetics) Fricative consonant Approximant consonant Flap consonant SIL International Wolf Leslau
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