Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual...

Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language; if so, the pre-Dahalo language...

Southern West Rift language. Aasax and Kw'adza are poorly attested and, like Dahalo, maybe the result language shift from non-Cushitic languages. Several additional...

or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...

the neighboring speakers of the Dahalo language, there is no concrete linguistic evidence of a shift from a prior language; it is best said that the possibility...

Cushitic languages spoken by former hunter-gatherers in Kenya: Aweer language Dahalo language Waata language The "Sanye" in Greenberg is Dahalo. This disambiguation...

South Cushitic Maʼa (Bantu hybrid & partially a planned language, difficult to classify) Dahalo (divergent; possibly not Southern Cushitic) Rift East Cushitic...

have an implosive b alongside a series of allophonically ejective stops. Dahalo of Kenya, has ejectives, implosives, and click consonants. Non-contrastively...

and the Nguni languages of the Bantu family utilize all four, – pulmonic, click, implosive, and ejective, – as does the Dahalo language of Kenya. Most...

hunter-gatherers. They share the name Sanye with the neighboring Dahalo. The current language of the Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern Oromo...

Lowland East Cushitic is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...

It is a rare sound, found in Dahalo, a Cushitic language of Kenya, and in Hadza, a language isolate of Tanzania. In Dahalo, /c͜𝼆ʼ/ contrasts with alveolar...

Sandawe and Hadza are language isolates spoken in Tanzania Dahalo is a Cushitic language of Kenya Xhosa and Yeyi are Bantu languages, from the two geographic...

vocabulary, suggesting language shift from an indigenous language like that seen in Dahalo. Comparison of numerals in individual languages: List of Proto-Kuliak...

known if these have any connection with the neighbouring Cushitic language Dahalo. Chonyi at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Digo at Ethnologue (26th ed...

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

"Phonetic structures of Dahalo", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA working papers in phonetics: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages, vol. 84, Los Angeles:...

changes: Algonquin Frication between vowels: Dahalo Lenition: Manx, Corsican Voicing of clicks: Dahalo Allophones for /b/: Arapaho, Xavante Allophones...

nc. The prenasalized clicks are written ngc and nkc. The Cushitic language Dahalo has four clicks, all of them nasalized: [ᵑ̊ʇ, ᵑʇ, ᵑ̊ʇʷ, ᵑʇʷ]. Dental...

Somali, Afar, Dahalo and Iraqw) branches of the Afroasiatic language family the Caucasus, in the Northwest, and Northeast Caucasian language families British...

phoneme in any language. However, it exists as the intervocalic voiced allophone of the otherwise voiceless epiglottal stop /ʡ/ of Dahalo and perhaps of...

consonants, a rare feature shared with only two other languages of East Africa – Hadza and Dahalo, had been the basis of its classification as a member...

to Hadza or Dahalo and shifted incompletely to Nilo-Saharan. Anbessa Tefera and Peter Unseth consider the poorly attested Shabo language to be Nilo-Saharan...

these languages also have lateral affricates. Some languages have palatal or velar voiceless lateral fricatives or affricates, such as Dahalo and Zulu...

structures of Dahalo". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics. 84: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages. Los Angeles: UCLA: 25–65. List of languages with [ʡ]...

(June 1993). "Phonetic Structures of Dahalo". Working Papers in Phonetics: Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages. 84. UCLA: 25–66 – via eScholarship...

pattern. If a language has both an apical and laminal stop, then the laminal stop is more likely to be affricated like in Isoko, though Dahalo show the opposite...

found in every language which has clicks as part of its regular sound inventory. This includes Damin, which has only nasal clicks, and Dahalo, which has only...

influence and adopted the Afro-Asiatic languages of the Eastern and Southern Cushitic peoples who moved into the area. Dahalo has consequently retained some of...