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Revision as of 15:45, 22 November 2018
The Sani language is the language spoken by the Sani people. It has around 10 million speakers, mostly living in Talenore and Shireroth, with scattered communities in other nations. It is an official language in Talenore. Together with the Amarri language it constitutes the Cosimo-Benacian language family which is not related to any other known language family. Some linguists believe it to be the remnants of the languages spoken before the Istvanistani and Praeta speakers migrated to eastern Benacia. Sani is an agglutinative language with no grammatical gender and the simple syllable structure (C)V.
History
Current status
Classification
Vocabulary
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p p' | t t' | k k' | q | ʔ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Trill | r̥ r | |||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | h | |||
| Lateral | ɬ l | |||||||
| Approximant | j | ʍ w |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Open-Mid | e-ɛ | o-ɔ | |
| Open | a |
Each vowel comes in a short and a long version. Long vowels are only found in stressed syllables.
