- Source: Kabba language
Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the Sara people in Central African Republic and Chad, with around 100,000 speakers.
There are several languages named Kaba, which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to Sara. Kaba of Gore is confusing classified as a Sara rather than as a Kaba language.
Kabba is a tonal language. There are three tones, High (H) Mid (M) and Low (L).
Phonology
= Consonants
=The glottal stop [ʔ] is only heard in word-initial position, before vowels.
/h/ occurs only in limited distribution.
Sounds /t, d, ⁿd/ are heard in complimentary distribution with affricate sounds [ts, dz, ⁿdz] when in word initial position before /i/.
/ɗ/ may have a retroflex [ɽ] or trill [r] allophone, when in intervocalic positions.
/ɾ/ may also be heard as a retroflex [ɽ] in free variation.
[ŋ] occurs as an allophone of /n/ when before a velar stop, or when at the end of root words or morphemes.
= Vowels
=/ə/ is heard as [ɨ] when in CVCV open syllables.
References
The Sara-Bagirmi Language Project -- Kaba
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