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'''Douiret''' (also called '''Douiri''') is a [[Berber languages|Berber language variety]] spoken in [[Douiret]] in the southern part of mainland [[Tunisia]].<ref name=Gabsi2003/><ref name=Gabsi2011>{{cite journal |last=Gabsi |first=Zouhir |year=2011 |title=Attrition and maintenance of the Berber language in Tunisia |journal=journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language |pages=135–164 |doi=10.1515/ijsl.2011.041}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mughal |first=Muhammad Aurang Zeb |year=2013 |chapter=Tunisia |editor=Steven Danver |title=Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues |pages=688–689 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref> Like all other varieties of Tunisian Berber, it is also referred to as ''Shilha''. It is closely related to the Berber variety of [[Chenini]].<ref name=GabsiGabsi2003/>

== Phonology ==

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* Pharyngeal sounds [fˤ, mˤ, dˤ, zˤ, rˤ, nˤ, lˤ] are mostly heard as allophonic variants of /f, m, d, z, r, n, l/ within intervocalic and pharyngeal positions.

* Sounds /t, k/ may have aspirated allophones of [tʰ, kʰ] when in word-final and pre-consonantal positions.

* /k, ɡ, ɣ/ may also have labialized allophones as [kʷ, ɡʷ, ɣʷ].<ref name=GabsiGabsi2003>{{Cite book |last=Gabsi |first=Zouhir |title=An outline of the Shilha (Berber) vernacular of Douiret (Southern Tunisia) |publisher=Sydney: University of Western Sydney |year=2003}}</ref>

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