Vadi language
Kainji language spoken in Nigeria
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The Vadi language (Tsuvadi), is a Kainji language[2] of Nigeria spoken by the Kambari people.
PeopleAvaɗi
LanguageTsɨvaɗi
| Vaɗi | |
|---|---|
| People | Avaɗi |
| Language | Tsɨvaɗi |
PeopleAgaɗi
LanguageTsɨgaɗi
| Gaɗi | |
|---|---|
| People | Agaɗi |
| Language | Tsɨgaɗi |
Kakihum (or Gadi, Gaɗi),[citation needed] is a dialect.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | lab. | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | nʲ | (ɲ) | (ŋ) | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kʲ | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʲ | ʔʷ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʲ | ɡʷ | ||||||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | ʃ | h | hʲ | hʷ | ||||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | ||||||||
| Tap/Trill | ɾ ~ r | ɾʲ | |||||||||
| Approximant | l | lʲ | j | w | |||||||
- /f/ only rarely occurs.
- /ɾ/ can be heard as either a tap [ɾ] or a trill [r] in free variation.
- /n/ as a homorganic nasal, can be heard as palatal [ɲ] when preceding a palatal or post-alveolar consonant, and as velar [ŋ] when preceding a velar or glottal consonant.
- /nʲ/ may also be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ].[3]
Vowels
- The status of [ɨ] is only heard as an alternate of sounds /i, u/ within speech, as well as its lengthened and nasalized equivalents.
- The sounds of /ɛ, ɛ̃, ɛː, ɛ̃ː/ may be heard as more close-mid [e, ẽ, eː, ẽː] across dialects.[4]