Senara language

Senara
Senara
Senari
Native to	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(210,000 cited 1995–2010)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Senufo Senari Senara; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; seq– Senara; shz– Syenara (duplicate code)
Glottolog	sena1262; syen1235bookkeeping; bibliography

Senara(Niangolo), one of a cluster of languages calledSenari,is aSenufo languageofBurkina FasoandMali.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial-velar	Glottal
Plosive/Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kp	ʔ
Plosive/Affricate	voiced	b	d	dʒ	g	gb
Nasal		m
Fricative	voiceless	f	s
Fricative	voiced	v	z
Approximant			l	j		w

Senara has low, rising, and high tones.^[2]

Syenara^[3]alphabet (Mali, 1982)
A	B	C	D	E	Ɛ	F	G	GB	H	I	J	K	KP	L	M	N	Ɲ	Ŋ	O	Ɔ	P	R	S	SH	T	U	V	W	Y	Z	ZH
a	b	c	d	e	ɛ	f	g	gb	h	i	j	k	kp	l	m	n	ɲ	ŋ	o	ɔ	p	r	s	sh	t	u	v	w	y	z	zh

^SenaraatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
Syenara (duplicate code)atEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
^^a ^b ^c ^dChanard, Christian; Hartell, Rhonda L. (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.)."Senara Sénoufo sound inventory (AA)".PHOIBLE.2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.Retrieved23 September2024.
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017)."Syenara".Glottolog 3.0.Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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