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The Sound System of Ezha, Ethio-SemiticBy Endalew Assefa
Abstract: This article is devoted to present a descriptive account of Ezha phonology. The various speech sounds of the language are approached from the perspective of their individual articulatory characteristics and from the perspective of the ways in which they pattern together. A total of thirty three consonant and seven vowel phonemes are attested. In terms of phoneme clustering, Ezha sounds can assume four different patterns: Sonorant-Obstruent, Obstruent-Sonorant, Sonorant-Sonorant, and Obstruent-Obstruent …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2017 · pp. 14–23 Read article →