Grammar of Shina Language And Vocabulary

26Grammar of Shina Language and Vocabularyvowels. That is the lip rounding. The vowels pronouncedwith partly or fully rounded lips are known as roundedvowels. The vowels pronounced with lips in the normalposition or widely spread position is known as unroundedvowels. Thus [i] is identified as high front unrounded voweland [u] is identified as high back rounded vowel, and so on.The vowel triangle or trapezium works well for alllanguages. Hence given any vowel one should be able toidentify its place in the triangle. The vowels a, i, u, e, o havesimilar description in whatever language they occur.All vowels are capable of forming the nucleus of asyllable. But there are some vowel-like articulations whichcannot form the nucleus of the syllable. They are semivowelsor approximants, like [w], a voiced labial-velarapproximant in the IPA, is a bilabial approximant in ourdescription and [y] is a high front rounded vowel in the IPAis a palatal approximant here in our description.The syllabic [ṛ], [ḷ] and [ṃ] also appear in the data. Thesyllabic [ṛ] occurs in the words like [ʌtṛ] `perfume’, wherethe stop [t] is released into [ṛ]. In [ʃkḷ] `shape’, [ḷ] issyllabic and in [nzṃ] `poetry’, [ṃ] is syllabic.2.8. Modification of articulation:In any natural language, all vowels and consonants arenot found in their pure form as described above. Some ofthem might occur with modification.With reference to Shina language two types of vowelmodifications are seen:(a) Stress and (b) Nasalization.which vowels geton the vowel. Nasalization is the coloring