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The Sekani language or Tse’khene is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada.
Sekani has 33 consonants:
/ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /ɐ/ are reduced vowels, that is, phonetically shorter and not found word finally. Nasal vowels are rarely reduced, but there are at least two words with /ɐ̃/.[3]
Sekani has two tones: low and high. High tone is the more common tone. Syllables phonologically marked for tone are low. For example, tsun means 'dirt', while tsùn means 'meat'.[4]
Nasalization of vowels is phonemic. The root *ghèl means 'scrape', while the root *ghę̀l means 'roll'.[4] Nasal vowels also contrast with vowels followed by /n/. A near-minimal pair is /ɬõ˩/ 'correct' and /tɐlon/ 'it's solid'.[3]
The orthography of the Kwadcha Tsek'ene dictionary uses the following letters.[5][3]
In addition, ⟨wu⟩ represents /ʊ/, ⟨iii⟩ represents /iː/, ⟨ee⟩ represents /eː/, and ⟨aa⟩ represents /ɑː/.
These words are from the FirstVoices dictionary for Kwadacha Tsek'ene dialect.[5]
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