• Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual...
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    Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language; if so, the pre-Dahalo language...
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  • Southern West Rift language. Aasax and Kw'adza are poorly attested and, like Dahalo, maybe the result language shift from non-Cushitic languages. Several additional...
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    the neighboring speakers of the Dahalo language, there is no concrete linguistic evidence of a shift from a prior language; it is best said that the possibility...
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    Glottal stop (category Articles containing Dahalo-language text)
    or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...
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    South Cushitic Maʼa (Bantu hybrid & partially a planned language, difficult to classify) Dahalo (divergent; possibly not Southern Cushitic) Rift East Cushitic...
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  • Cushitic languages spoken by former hunter-gatherers in Kenya: Aweer language Dahalo language Waata language The "Sanye" in Greenberg is Dahalo. This disambiguation...
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  • have an implosive b alongside a series of allophonically ejective stops. Dahalo of Kenya, has ejectives, implosives, and click consonants. Non-contrastively...
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  • all Cushitic languages, with the exception of *j, *w > /dʒ/, /v/ in Dahalo and a merger of *l and *r in the Highland East Cushitic language Hadiyya. Major...
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  • and the Nguni languages of the Bantu family utilize all four, – pulmonic, click, implosive, and ejective, – as does the Dahalo language of Kenya. Most...
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