Chali

Chali is a Semitic dialect continuum spoken in the River of Shala, Ethiopia. It is an mainly-suffixing agglutinative language, with some slight Bantu and Somali influence.

Consonants
Chali's consonantal inventory shares most of Afro-Asiatic languages, with the lack of phonemic /p/ and labialized stops and nasals.

Vowels
The central vowels /ɨ/ and /ə/ may be merged into [ə]. When in unstressed positions, /a/ reduces to [ə], /e/ reduces to [i] and /o/ reduces to [u].

Phonotactics
The Chali syllable structure is relatively simple, with a maximum of CV(C). To avoid such initial consonant clusters, an epenthetic /ə/ may be used. /m/, /t/, and /kʷ/ never occur at the end of a syllable (except in loanwords).