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OLAC Record oai:sil.org:56015 |
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Title: | ꞌBëlï Phonology, Tone and Orthography | |
Abstract: | ꞌBëlï, a Nilo-Saharan Language of South Sudan, uses tone as the only distinctive feature to differentiate meaning in nearly 20% of words. The functional load of grammatical tone is also very high in that at least seven prepositions are in tone minimal pairs with body part nouns, and three relative clause connectors are in tone minimal pairs with demonstratives. Even so, with four simple spelling rules, the ꞌBëlï are able to disambiguate 75% of lexical tone distinctions and all grammatical tone distinctions in writing. These rules essentially mark grammatical category rather than tone, and involve doubled vowels, underlined vowels, hyphens and commas. | |
Contributor (author): | Stirtz, Timothy M. | |
Date (W3CDTF): | 2014 | |
Description (URI): | http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/56015 | |
Extent: | 34 pages | |
Identifier (URI): | http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/56015 | |
http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/56015 | ||
Is Part Of: | SIL Electronic Working Papers 2014-002 | |
Is Version Of (URI): | oai:sil.org:55968 | |
Language: | English | |
Language (ISO639): | eng | |
Publisher: | SIL International | |
Subject: | Beli (Sudan) language | |
lexical tone; grammatical tone; tone functional load; tone minimal pairs; orthographic representation of tone; orthographical marking of grammatical category; ATR; morphophonology | ||
Subject (ISO639): | blm | |
Type (DCMI): | Text | |
Type (OLAC): | language_description | |
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Archive: | SIL Language and Culture Archives | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/sil.org | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:sil.org:56015 | |
DateStamp: | 2013-04-27 | |
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Citation: | Stirtz, Timothy M. 2014. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2014-002. | |
Terms: | area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_SS dcmi_Text iso639_blm iso639_eng olac_language_description | |
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Country: | South Sudan | |
Area: | Africa |