Harjam
Mawa language spoken by the Harjam / Khardzam (Xarjân) people
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phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Labio-dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | Unvoiced | p | t | k | |||
| Voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ɠ | ||||
| Fricative | Unvoiced | f | s | ʂ <sh> | x | h | |
| Voiced | v | z | ʐ <zh> | ɣ | |||
| Approximant | w | l | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | Nasal | Oral | Nasal | Oral | Nasal | |
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ʊ̃ <un> | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-mid | ʌ <ê>1 | ɔ̃ <on> | ||||
| Near-open | æ <â> | æ̃ <ân> | ||||
| Open | a | ã | ɑ <ô> | |||
- often becomes /o/ when following /b/ or /w/
words
- u (tr.) | -ɗe (intr.) (aff.) past tense marker
- -xow (aff.) perfective suffix
- mâxjun (n.) wife
- câ (v.) to talk to, to have a conversation (intr.)
- sâbi (v.) to go home
translations
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