An Introductory Phonology of Hausa: With Exercise

abutting consonants accompanied by glottalization affected by glottalization aiki air passage airstream allophone alveolar ridge Assimilation bilabial chapter closed syllable coda common segments complementary distribution consonant sound cv-cv CVV-CVV diphthong downdrift downdrift pattern falling tone female's Proper name final syllable following words free variation fricative front vowel gida glottal stop glottalization in Hausa glottis hard palate Hausa Phonology high tone Interrogative Intonation interrogative word labialization language long vowel low tone makaranta male's Proper Manner of Articulation meaning minimal pair monophthongs nasal consonant neutralize nucleus Nucleus/Syllabic open syllable organs of speech otherwise orthographically phoneme phonetic environment Phonology pitch level plural point of articulation Pulmonic egressive respectively root final consonant sentence short vowel single vowels soft palate/velum sonants speech sound Standard Hausa stop/plosive voiced suka tafi ticulation tone-patterns tongue utterance velars verbs vocal cords voiced alveolar vowel length Zubairu