Lama is a Gur language spoken by the Lamba people in Togo, Benin, and by a few in Ghana.
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Phonology
Source:1
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Stop | p | t | ɖ | tʃ | k | k͡p | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | nasal | short | long | nasal | short | long | nasal | |
| Close | i | iː | ĩ | ɨ | ɨː | ɨ̃ | u | uː | ũ |
| Near-close | ɪ | ɪː | ɪ̃ | ʊ | ʊː | ʊ̃ | |||
| Close-mid | e | eː | ẽ | ə | əː | ə̃ | o | oː | õ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ɛ̃ | ɔ | ɔː | ɔ̃ | |||
| Open | a | aː | ã | ||||||
Tones
| Toneme | |
|---|---|
| Falling | ˦˨ |
| Level | ˨ |
| Rising | ˨˦ |
Alphabet
Lama alphabet2| Uppercase | A | C | D | Ɖ | E | Ǝ | Ɛ | F | H | I | Ɨ | Ɩ | K | KP | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase | a | c | d | ɖ | e | ǝ | ɛ | f | h | i | ɨ | ɩ | k | kp | l |
| Uppercase | M | N | Ŋ | Ñ | O | Ɔ | P | R | S | T | U | Ʋ | W | Y | |
| Lowercase | m | n | ŋ | ñ | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | ʋ | w | y |
- SIL International (2014). "Classement alphabétique pour la langue lama". Dictionnaire lama.
References
"PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2022-06-10. https://phoible.org/inventories/view/760 ↩
alphabet, SIL 2014. - SIL International (2014). "Classement alphabétique pour la langue lama". Dictionnaire lama. http://lama.webonary.org/ ↩