Английская Википедия:Bena language

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Bena is a Bantu language spoken by the Bena people of the Iringa region of Tanzania.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
Affricate			ts
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			h
	voiced	v
	prenasal		ⁿs
Approximant			l	j	w

Voiceless sounds almost always occur as aspirated stops; [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ].

• /v/ can be realized as [ʋ] intervocalically.
• [ɖ] can occur as an allophone of /d/ before long non high vowels.
• [x] can occur as an allophone of /k/, /h/ in the Maswamu dialect.
• [cç, tʃ] can occur as allophones of /ts/, in the Twangabita dialect.
• [ⁿz] can occur as an allophone of /ⁿs/.
• [ɟ] can occur as an allophone of /j/ in the Maswamu dialect.
• [β, ʋ] can occur as allophones of /w/ among some speakers.
• Prenasalised stops may be devoiced when occurring word-finally (ex. /ᵐb/ ~ [ᵐb̥]).

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid	ɛ eː		o oː
Low		a aː

• /i, u/ before non-rounded vowels are recognized as glides [j, w].

References

• Шаблон:Cite thesis

Шаблон:Bantu-lang-stub