Douiret language

Douiret
Chninni
Native to	Tunisia
Native speakers	90,000 (2003)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati East Douiret
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	doui1234
Berber-speaking areas belonging to Kossmann's "Tunisian-Zuwara" dialectal group

Douiret also called Tataouine, Shilha or Chninni is a Berber language spoken in the southern part of mainland Tunisia.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv./ Palatal	Velar		Uvular	Pharyn- geal	Glottal
		plain	phar.	plain	phar.	plain	phar.		plain	lab.
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless					t	tˤ	tʃ	k	(kʷ)	q
	voiced	b				d	dˤ	dʒ	g	(ɡʷ)
Fricative	voiceless	f	fˤ	θ		s	sˤ	ʃ	x			ħ	h
	voiced			ð	ðˤ	z	zˤ	ʒ	ɣ	(ɣʷ)		ʕ
Nasal		m	mˤ			n	nˤ
Lateral						l	lˤ
Trill						r	rˤ
Approximant								j		w

• Most consonant sounds may also have geminated variants as [Cː].
• Pharyngeal sounds [fˤ, mˤ, dˤ, zˤ, rˤ, nˤ, lˤ] are mostly heard as allophonic variants of /f, m, d, z, r, n, l/ within intervocalic and pharyngeal positions.
• Sounds /t, k/ may have aspirated allophones of [tʰ, kʰ] when in word-final and pre-consonantal positions.
• /k, ɡ, ɣ/ may also have labialized allophones as [kʷ, ɡʷ, ɣʷ].

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

Phoneme	Allophones	Rules
/i/	[i]	elsewhere
	[iː]	in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
	[ɪ]	when preceding geminated consonants
/a/	[a]	elsewhere
	[aː]	in word-initial position when preceding a consonant
	[æ]	in word-initial position or when following pharyngealized consonants
	[e]	when preceding geminated consonants
	[eː]	when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions
/u/	[u]	elsewhere
	[uː]	in word-final position or within monosyllabic words
	[ʊ]	when preceding geminated consonants
	[o]	when preceding pharyngealized consonants
	[oː]	when following pharyngealized consonants in word-final positions