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Kainji language spoken in Nigeria
Vaɗi People Avaɗi Language Tsɨvaɗi
Gaɗi People Agaɗi Language Tsɨgaɗi
The Vadi language , Tsuvadi Kainji language of Nigeria spoken by the Kambari people .
Kakihum (or Gadi, Gaɗi),[citation needed is a dialect.
/f/ only rarely occurs.
/ɾ/ can be heard as either a tap [ɾ] or a trill [r] in free variation.
/n/ as a homorganic nasal, can be heard as palatal [ɲ] when preceding a palatal or post-alveolar consonant, and as velar [ŋ] when preceding a velar or glottal consonant.
/nʲ/ may also be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ].[ 2] The status of [ɨ] is only heard as an alternate of sounds /i, u/ within speech, as well as its lengthened and nasalized equivalents.
The sounds of /ɛ, ɛ̃, ɛː, ɛ̃ː/ may be heard as more close-mid [e, ẽ, eː, ẽː] across dialects.[ 3]
^ Vadi at Ethnologue (subscription required) ^ Buttacavoli, Ryan (2022). A Phonological Sketch of the Tsuvaɗi Language with a Focus on the Tsudugu Dialect . SIL Nigeria. ^ Blench, Roger (2007). A sketch of the phonology and an extended wordlist of TsuVaɗi, a Kambari language of Western Nigeria .
