Consonants and Vowels in the Western Gurage Variety Inor: Complex Connections between Phonemes, Allophones, and Free Alternations

This paper is concerned with the phonemic status of consonants and vowels of Inor, a Peripheral Western Gurage language in the southern part of Ethiopia. Determining the status of Inor consonants and vowels is a task well worth doing, as scholars disagree on their categorization. Qualitative researc...

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Main Author: Tsehay Abza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2017-02-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/4416