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Tera is a Chadic dialect cluster spoken in north-eastern Nigeria in the north and eastern parts of Gombe State and Borno State. Blench (2006) believes Pidlimdi (Hinna) dialect is a separate language.〔Blench, 2006. (The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List ) (ms)〕 ==Phonology== : Voiceless plosives are lightly aspirated but unreleased before another consonant. : and formally had and respectively as allophones but the two pairs have split; however, the alveolar plosives never precede front vowels and the postalveolar affricates rarely precede anything but front vowels.〔 : is a relatively new phoneme, appearing in loanwords from English and Hausa. : derives from a that has lost its alveolar contact while retaining the palatal and glottal action.〔 * The mid vowels are true-mid .〔 * The open vowels are central .〔 Vowel length contrasts are neutralized in monosyllabic words with no coda consonants.〔 All vowels but and are more open in closed syllables such as in ('to plait') and ('to cook soup'). and tend to be fronted to when following palatalized consonants. Diphthongs, which have the same length as long vowels, consist of a non-high vowel and a high vowel:〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tera language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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