Kabba language
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Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the Sara people in Central African Republic and Chad, with around 100,000 speakers.
There are several languages named Kaba, which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to Sara. Kaba of Gore is confusing classified as a Sara rather than as a Kaba language.
Kabba is a tonal language. There are three tones, High (H) Mid (M) and Low (L).
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ) | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | (ts) | tʃ | |||
| voiced | (dz) | dʒ | ||||
| prenasal | (ⁿdz) | ⁿdʒ | ||||
| Fricative | s | (h) | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j |
- The glottal stop [ʔ] is only heard in word-initial position, before vowels.
- /h/ occurs only in limited distribution.
- Sounds /t, d, ⁿd/ are heard in complimentary distribution with affricate sounds [ts, dz, ⁿdz] when in word initial position before /i/.
- /ɗ/ may have a retroflex [ɽ] or trill [r] allophone, when in intervocalic positions.
- /ɾ/ may also be heard as a retroflex [ɽ] in free variation.
- [ŋ] occurs as an allophone of /n/ when before a velar stop, or when at the end of root words or morphemes.
Vowels
- /ə/ is heard as [ɨ] when in CVCV open syllables.