v Kirya phonology is close to the Higi
described by Mohrlang
vKirya has six vowels, i.e. five cardinal
vowels plus schwa, thereby resembling Margi as described by Hoffman (1963)
v
vMohrlang
(1972) reduces the medial vowels to just three (i.e. high, mid and low) and argues for the effect of labial
and palatal prosodies
to produce the considerable allophony this requires.
v
vFurther
analysis of the Fali data may make possible a similar reduction of underlying vowels, but it seems unlikely
this would be accepted
for a practical orthography.
v
vAs
with Higi, there is apparently no long/short contrast in vowel length and no phonemic nasalisation.