The Phonology of Mecha Oromo
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1981-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to present a fuller analysis
of the phonology of the Mecha dialect of Oromo. The paper has six
sections. In the first section the relevant liter~ture is revied
in brief. The second section treats the description of the phonemes,
their allophones and the distributions of the phonemes. The third
section deals with the phonotactics and syllabification. A frequency
count of phonemes based on the Swaddesh Basic VocGbulary and on an
original story in Oromo, k~amale:f ye:y:i: is also presented in
this section.
The fourth section deals with the major suprasegmental phenomena
such as length, stress, pitch and terminal contours. Lexical pitch
and stress are non-phonemic but grammatically significant.
Morphophonemic processes involving assimilation of consonants,
epenthesis, metathesis, deletion, vowel shortening and reduplication
are dealt with in the fifth section.
The concluding section presents a summary of the findings of
the analysi
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Phonology