Talk:Somali phonology

message: "Common Somali has 22 consonant phonemes. It has at least one consonant at every place of articulation on the IPA chart (except epiglottal)."
Is this a very accurate statement? To say it includes every POA on the IPA chart is, as far as I can see, corrent; but as epiglottal is mentioned should we not also mention the other places of articulation such as linguolabial, dentolabial, alveolopalatal, prepalatal, and *epiglotto-pharyngeal? That would greatly reduce the accuracy of the first statement. --user:Cevlakohn
I don't really know why the point about epiglottal is in brackets since it is the single exception to the statement. Perhaps we should say the main IPA chart? I can't see any reason to mention the other places since they are not on the main chart. Gailtb 09:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled

message: What about the uvular-epiglottal consonants? There's an article Uvular-epiglottal consonant that says that Somali has [q͡ʡ] which isn't mentioned by this article. Pittmirg 14:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Per Jerold Edmondson (2005) The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register, and stress: laryngoscopic case studies, Somali contrasts breathy and harsh voice, not ±ATR. I'll correct if I get a chance, but it might be a while. kwami (talk) 00:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uvular-epiglottal consonants 

message: 'They may be "Somalized" by replacing them with the stop /ɢ/.' But /ɢ/ isn't shown in the chart. Is it really an allophone, or is [ɢ] merely an allophone of /χ/? 71.13.148.220 (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was also confused by this. Somali alphabet says /ɢ/ is spelled  and /χ/ is spelled <kh> and doesn't mention /q͡ʡ/, so I would guess that the chart should have ɢ instead of q͡ʡ. Also, upon further investigation I've found that this part of the article probably is from http://www.grafixdesign.net/www.sig.co.uk/pdf/SOMALI.pdf, whose chart does have ɢ where this one has q͡ʡ. But I think someone who actually knows something about the language (i.e. not I) should fix this. brtkrbzhnv (talk) 18:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  /ɢ/ 

message: "Somali has five vowel articulations which all contrast breathy voice and harsh voice as well as vowel length."  But the chart shows what it calls a "front-series" and a "back-series."  I certainly don't know Somali, but it doesn't appear to me to be front/ back distinction per se; maybe the left-hand column is further front than the right-hand column, but it looks like there are other distinctions (tense/ lax?) as well.  In any case, the text (breathy/ harsh) should be reconciled with the chart (front/ back). Mcswell (talk) 21:01, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowels 

message: : "Roots have front-back vowel harmony." I don't know what it would mean for a *root* to have vowel harmony. What I think this might be trying to say is that the vowel of the root conditions vowel harmony on suffixes.Mcswell (talk) 00:14, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowel harmony 

message: I am new to Somali and am trying to understand which phonemes correspond to the Latin letters used in written Somali.  Would someone knowledgeable be able to add that? PinusStrobus481 (talk) 21:50, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That is covered at Somali Latin alphabet. Nardog (talk) 22:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin Alphabet