The
Cheyenne language is a
Native American language spoken in present-day
Wyoming, USA. It is part of the
Algonquian language family. Like many Native American languages, it has complex
agglutinative morphology.
Cheyenne phonology is not exceptionally complex. While there are only three basic
vowels[?], they can be pronounced in three ways: high tone, low tone, and voiceless. It is also unclear whether orthographic ‘ts’ and ‘tš’ are separate phonemes or simply representations of /t/ + /s/ and /t/ + /S/ respectively.
Consonants
|
bilabial |
dental |
palatal |
velar |
glottal |
stop |
p |
t |
|
k |
? |
fricative |
v |
s |
S |
x |
h |
nasal |
m |
n |
|
|
|
Vowels
|
front |
central |
back |
non-low |
e |
|
o |
low |
|
a |
|
Source: Cheyenne Language Web Site (http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/index.htm)
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