| Douiret | |
|---|---|
| Chninni | |
| Native to | Tunisia |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | doui1234 |
 Berber-speaking areas belonging to Kossmann's "Tunisian-Zuwara" dialectal group | |
Douiret (also called Douiri) is a Berber language variety spoken in Douiret in the southern part of mainland Tunisia. Like all other varieties of Tunisian Berber, it is also referred to as Shilha. It is closely related to the Berber variety of Chenini.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Pharyn- geal |
Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | phar. | plain | phar. | plain | phar. | plain | lab. | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | t | tˤ | tʃ | k | (kʷ) | q | ||||||
| voiced | b | d | dˤ | dʒ | g | (ɡʷ) | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fˤ | θ | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |||
| voiced | ð | ðˤ | z | zˤ | ʒ | ɣ | (ɣʷ) | ʕ | |||||
| Nasal | m | mˤ | n | nˤ | |||||||||
| Lateral | l | lˤ | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | rˤ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||||||
- Most consonant sounds may also have geminated variants as .
- Pharyngeal sounds /fˤ, mˤ, dˤ, zˤ, rˤ, nˤ, lˤ/ are mostly heard as allophonic variants of /f, m, d, z, r, n, l/ within intervocalic and pharyngeal positions.
- Sounds /t, k/ may have aspirated allophones of when in word-final and pre-consonantal positions.
- /k, ɡ, ɣ/ may also have labialized allophones as .
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | (e) | (o) |
| Low | a |
| Phoneme | Allophones | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| /i/ | elsewhere | |
| in word-final position or within monosyllabic words | ||
| when preceding geminated consonants | ||
| /a/ | elsewhere | |
| in word-initial position when preceding a consonant | ||
| in word-initial position or when following pharyngealized consonants | ||
| when preceding geminated consonants | ||
| when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions | ||
| /u/ | elsewhere | |
| in word-final position or within monosyllabic words | ||
| when preceding geminated consonants | ||
| when preceding pharyngealized consonants | ||
| when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions |
References
- ^ Gabsi, Zouhir (2003). An outline of the Shilha (Berber) vernacular of Douiret (Southern Tunisia). Sydney: University of Western Sydney.
- Gabsi, Zouhir (2011). "Attrition and maintenance of the Berber language in Tunisia". Journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2011 (211): 135–164. doi:10.1515/ijsl.2011.041.
- Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2013). "Tunisia". In Steven Danver (ed.). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. pp. 688–689.