Douiret language

Douiret
Chninni
Native to	Tunisia
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati East Douiret
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 [Cː].
• 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 [tʰ, kʰ] when in word-final and pre-consonantal positions.
• /k, ɡ, ɣ/ may also have labialized allophones as [kʷ, ɡʷ, ɣʷ].

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	(e)	(o)
Low	a

Phoneme	Allophones	Rules
/i/	[i]	elsewhere
	[iː]	in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
	[ɪ]	when preceding geminated consonants
/a/	[a]	elsewhere
	[aː]	in word-initial position when preceding a consonant
	[æ]	in word-initial position or when following pharyngealized consonants
	[e]	when preceding geminated consonants
	[eː]	when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions
/u/	[u]	elsewhere
	[uː]	in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
	[ʊ]	when preceding geminated consonants
	[o]	when preceding pharyngealized consonants
	[oː]	when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions