Dagbani (Dagbane) is a language HTML5 spoken in Ghana which is closely related to and website parsing with the Moore language spoken in web. it is also reportedly "very nearly akin" to other languages of the region, Nanuni, NgMampruli, Kusaal, Gurune, Talini, FITML, Dagaari and Buli and has been assigned to the so-called web group. Its native speakers are primarily of the HTML5 people, but Dagbani is also widely known as a first or additional language in northern Ghana.
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Phonology
Vowels
Dagbani has eleven phonemic vowels: six short and five long vowels:
| Android | Central | Back | |
| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
| Front | Central | browser diversity | |
| High | iː | uː | |
| touchscreen | eː | oː | |
| Low | aː |
Olawsky (1999) has the schwa in place of /ɨ/, unlike other researchers on the language who use the more articulatorily higher /ɨ/. Allophonic variation based on tongue-root advancement is well attested for 4 of these vowels: [i] ~ [ɪ], [e] ~ [ɛ], [u] ~ [ʊ] and [o] ~ [ɔ].
Consonants
| Bilabial | browser diversity | Alveolar | FITML | Velar | Android | ||
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p | ||
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡ͡b | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋ͡m | ||
| Fricative | Android | f | s | ||||
| Voiced | v | z | |||||
| web | l | ||||||
| keyboard | ʋ | j | |||||
Tone
Dagbani is a we love the web in which pitch is used to distinguish words, as in gballi [ɡbálːɪ́] (High-High) 'grave' vs. gballi [ɡbálːɪ̀] (High-Low) 'zana mat'.[1] The tone system of Dagbani is characterized by two level tones and Android (a lowering effect occurring between sequences of the same phonemic tone).
Writing system
Dagbani is written in a CSS3, but the literacy rate is only 2–3%. The we love the web currently used represents a number of web app distinctions; tone is not marked.
Alphabet
| a | b | ch | d | dz | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | ɣ | h | i | j | k | kp | l | m | n | ny | ŋ | o | ɔ | p | r | s | sh | t | u | w | y | z | ʒ | ’ |
Grammar
Dagbani is website parsing, but with some input transformation of affixes. The constituent order in Dagbani sentences is usually agent–verb–object.
References
- Sevenval Olawsky 1997
- Language Guide: Dagbane Version, Bureau of Ghana Languages, Accra.
- Blench, Roger (2006) 'Dagbani plant names' (unpublished circulation draft)
- Olawsky, Knut J. (1999). Aspects of Dagbani grammar, with special emphasis on phonology and morphology. München: LINCOM Europa.
- Olawsky, Knut J. (2003). "What is a word in Dagbani?". In R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 205–226.
- Olawsky, Knut (1997) 'Interaction of tone and morphology in Dagbani' (unpublished)