Vadi language

Vadi
Vadi
tsɨVaɗi
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Niger State
Ethnicity	Kambari
Native speakers	130,000 (2011)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Benue–Congo Kainji Kambari Vadi; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tvd Tsuvadi
Glottolog	tsuv1239
ELP	Tsuvadi

The Vadi language, Tsuvadi, is a Kainji language of Nigeria spoken by the Kambari people.

Kakihum (or Gadi, Gaɗi),^{[citation needed]} is a dialect.

Phonology

/f/ only rarely occurs.
/ɾ/ can be heard as either a tap [ɾ] or a trill [r] in free variation.
/n/ as a homorganic nasal, can be heard as palatal [ɲ] when preceding a palatal or post-alveolar consonant, and as velar [ŋ] when preceding a velar or glottal consonant.
/nʲ/ may also be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ].^[2]

The status of [ɨ] is only heard as an alternate of sounds /i, u/ within speech, as well as its lengthened and nasalized equivalents.
The sounds of /ɛ, ɛ̃, ɛː, ɛ̃ː/ may be heard as more close-mid [e, ẽ, eː, ẽː] across dialects.^[3]

^ Vadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Buttacavoli, Ryan (2022). A Phonological Sketch of the Tsuvaɗi Language with a Focus on the Tsudugu Dialect. SIL Nigeria.
^ Blench, Roger (2007). A sketch of the phonology and an extended wordlist of TsuVaɗi, a Kambari language of Western Nigeria.

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