Afãba

Afãba is a divergent language variety in the Nambāno dialect cluster.

Vowels
Afãba features nine phonemic vowel qualities, each of which can be nasalised.

Vowel harmony
Afãba exhibits a progressive assimilation rule in which all vowels in a word must match the closeness of the vowel in the initial syllable, resulting in a system of vowel harmony. This manifests as three different inflectional classes of nouns, exemplified in the table below.

Regular verbs
Some examples of regular verbs are shown in the table below: