Ichi Kanembu

 

Ichi Kanembu chi ichi Nilo-Saharan language iche. Abo ku ma ki ichi Kanembu chi abo Kanembu ku ma di Chad. Abo ku ma ki ichi kanembu nwo di Niger ge ma muda na nan. Ichi Kanembu meri ichi Kanuri.

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ
Fricative		f	s	ʃ		h
Trill			r
Approximant		w	l	j

• allophones /f, b/ chi [ɸ, β].[2]

Vowels

	ogba	alumeji	ubi
Close	i		u
Near-close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɜ	ɔ
Open		a

Alu ku ma ko

Alu ku ma ki ichi Kanembu chi Latin script kpai Ajami alphabets.

Kanembu Latin alphabet [5][6]

A a	B b	C c	D d	E e	Ə ə	F f	G g	H h	I i	J j	K k
[a]	[b]	[t͡ʃ]	[d]	[e]	[ə]	[f]	[g]	[h]	[i]	[d͡ʒ]	[k]
L l	M m	N n	O o	Pp	R r	S s	T t	U u	W w	Y y
[l]	[m]	[n]	[o]	[p]	[r]	[s]	[t]	[u]	[w]	[j]

Kanembu Arabic alphabet

Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	‌( - ) [∅]/[ʔ]	(B b) [b]	(T t) [t]	(S s) [s]	(J j) [ɟ]	(Nj nj) [ᶮɟ]
Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	(C c) [t͡ʃ]	(H h) [h]	(Kh kh) [x]	(D d) [d]	(Nd nd) [ⁿd]	(S s) [s]
Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	(R r) [r]	(S s) [s]	(S s) [s]	(Ch ch) [ʃ]	(S s) [s]	(D d) [d]
Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	(T t) [t]	(Z z) [z]	( - ) [ʔ]	(Kh kh) [x]	(Ng ng) [ᵑɡ]	(F f) [f]
Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	(G g) [g]	(K k) [k]	(L l) [l]	(M m) [m]	(Mb mb) [ᵐb]	(N n) [n]
Arabic (Latin) [IPA]	(H h) [h]	(W w) [w]	‌( - ) [ʔ]	(Y y) [j]	‌( - ) [ʔ]

Vowel ku ma du chane ola

A	E	Ə	I	O	U
Aa	Ee	Əə	Ii	Oo	Uu
		-

Vowel agboji ola

a	e	ə	i	o	u
				ٝ◌‎
aa	ee	əə	ii	oo	uu
				ٝ◌و / ـٝو‎

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