Giryama is a dialect variety of the Mijikenda language spoken along the southern coast of Kenya, predominantly in the Kilifi district.
Phonology
Consonants
- Labialized sounds can alternatively be pronounced as labio-velar stops among speakers in free variation.
- may have allophones as either , , or , all heard interchangeably.
- is only heard in between vowel sounds, to break up a sequence of two vowels.
- Taylor (1891), noted two dental stops , however they were not easy to identify and therefore are not considered as phonemes.
Vowels
References
Sources
- Taylor, William Ernest. 1891. Giryama vocabulary and collections. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).