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Unpleasing impression themselves to at assistance acceptance my or. On consider laughter civility offended oh.
Phonology is the study of the building blocks of language. Morphology, on the other hand, is the study of the rules that govern how these blocks are put together. In other words, It establishes the rules that govern the internal structure of words and how they are formed or altered.
Here is the Kikuyu alphabet. a b c d e g h i ĩ j k m n o r t u ũ w y.
Gĩkũyũ is written with seven vowels. Two of the additional vowels are i-tilde (ĩ) and u-tilde (ũ). These are: a (low /central), e (ɛ Mid-low/Front), i (high/front), ĩ (e Mid-high/Front), o (ɔ Mid-low /Back), u (High/Back), ũ (o Mid-high/Back).
Kikuyu and Italian seem to share the same vowels - /a/, /e/, /ɛ/, /i/, /o/, /ɔ/, /u/
The vowels are pronounced in two groups. The first group below is non-rounded, pronounced in the anterior position.
|
Openness |
Kikuyu Vowel |
Kikuyu meaning |
IPA letter |
English equivalent |
|
semi-open |
i |
Iga (keep) |
i |
deed |
|
semi-closed |
ĩ |
ĩka (do) |
e |
clay |
|
semi-open |
e |
endia (sell) |
ɛ |
debt |
|
open |
a |
aaca (no) |
a |
animal |
|
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Aca (no), Athiĩ (he/she has gone), arĩa (has eaten), Athamaki (kings/rulers) e – like the e in “hen, pen, ”eha? (where is he/she?), kena (be happy), ndehere (bring to me) ĩ – as the i in “it”. This writer suggests that a in “ate, hate, late” are closer to the real pronunciation. ĩkĩra (put), thĩna (problems, poverty), mĩtĩ (trees) | ||||