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Fuliiru (Furiiru, Kifuliiru, Fulero) is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Fuliiru people (Bafuliiru), also known as the Fuliru or Fulero, who live north and west of the town of Uvira in Uvira Territory, South Kivu province in the far eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is closely related to Kinyindu.[3]

Fuliiru
Native toUganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo
EthnicityFuliiru
Native speakers
400,000 (2012)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Southern Bantoid
            • Bantu
              • Northeast Bantu
                • Great Lakes Bantu
                  • Shi-Havu
                    • Fuliiru
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
flr – Fuliiru
job – Joba (Vira)
Glottologfuli1240  Fuliiru
joba1238  Joba
Guthrie code
JD.63,631[2]

Phonology



Consonants


The table below gives the consonant set of Fuliiru.[3][4]

Labial Labiodental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Laryngeal
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced d g
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ h
voiced v z ʒ
Prenasalized plosive mb nd ŋg
Nasal m n ɲ
Liquid l/ɾ
Approximant β j (w)[5]

Several sounds change when preceded by a nasal: voiceless sounds become voiced, and /β/ and /h/ are realized as [b].

The phoneme /n/ assimilates to the place of consonants that follow it: it can be realized as [m], [ɱ], [n], [ɲ], or [ŋ].

The phoneme /l/ is realized as [d] after /n/, as [ɾ] after the front vowels /e/ and /i/, and as [l] elsewhere. The phoneme /ɾ/ is likewise realized as [d] after /n/, but as [ɾ] elsewhere.


Vowels


The table below gives the vowel sounds of Fuliiru.[3]

Front Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a

All five vowels occur in long and short forms, a distinction that is phonemically distinctive. The quality of a vowel is not affected by its length.


Tone


Like most Bantu languages, Fuliiru is tonal, with a two-way contrast between high and low tones. Morphemes can be underlyingly high (H), low (L), or toneless. Phonetically, high, low, mid, and falling tones can all occur; mid tones are the realization of an underlying LH sequence, and falling tones are the realization of an underlying HL sequence or an utterance-final H tone.


References


  1. Fuliiru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Joba (Vira) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Van Otterloo, Karen (2011). The Kifuliiru Language: Volume 1. Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-261-6.
  4. Van Otterloo, Roger (2011). The Kifuliiru Language: Volume 2. Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-270-8.
  5. This sound is very rare in Fuliiru, and only occurs after other consonants or as the result of a /u/ becoming a glide.


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На других языках

- [en] Fuliiru language

[fr] Fuliru

Le fuliru, aussi appelée fuliro ou kifuliru (kifuliiru en fuliru), est une langue bantoue parlée par la population fuliru de la République démocratique du Congo.


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