| Senara | |
|---|---|
| Senari | |
| Native to | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | (210,000 cited 1995–2010)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:seq – Senarashz – Syenara (duplicate code) |
| Glottolog | sena1262syen1235 bookkeeping; bibliography |
Senara (Niangolo), one of a cluster of languages called Senari, is a Senufo language of Burkina Faso and Mali.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | kp | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | g | gb | ||
| Nasal | m | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ||||
| voiced | v | z | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | short | i | u |
| long | iː | uː | |
| Close-mid | short | e | o |
| long | eː | oː | |
| Open-mid | short | ɛ | ɔ |
| long | ɛː | ɔː | |
| Open | short | a | |
| long | aː | ||
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | short | ĩ | ũ |
| long | ĩː | ũː | |
| Close-mid | short | ẽ | õ |
| long | ẽː | õː | |
| Open-mid | short | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ |
| long | ɛ̃ː | ɔ̃ː | |
| Open | short | ã | |
| long | ãː | ||
Tone
Senara has low, rising, and high tones.2
Writing system
| Syenara3 alphabet (Mali, 1982) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | Ɛ | F | G | GB | H | I | J | K | KP | L | M | N | Ɲ | Ŋ | O | Ɔ | P | R | S | SH | T | U | V | W | Y | Z | ZH |
| a | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | h | i | j | k | kp | l | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | o | ɔ | p | r | s | sh | t | u | v | w | y | z | zh |
References
References
- Senara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Syenara (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - Chanard, Christian; Hartell, Rhonda L. (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). "Senara Sénoufo sound inventory (AA)". PHOIBLE. 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Syenara". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.