Firan language

Firan or Fəràn is a Plateau language closely related to Izere. Most Firan speakers are multilingual in Firan, Hausa, English, Iten and sometimes Berom.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labialvelar	Glottal
Plosive	b p		d t			ɡ k	ɡ͡b k͡p
Nasal	Voiced [bilabial nasal\| m]		Voiced [alveolar nasal\| n]		ɲ	ŋ
Sibilant affricate			ts	d̠ʒ t̠ʃ
Sibilant fricative			z~dz s	Voiceless [postalveolar fricative\| ʃ]
Non-sibilant fricative		f						h
Approximant					j ɥ		w
Tap/flap			ɾ
Lateral approximant			Voiced [alveolar lateral approximant\| l]

/Cj/ and /Cw/ sequences are permitted but are uncommon

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	Close front [unrounded vowel\| i]		ɨ		Close back [rounded vowel\| u]
Close-mid	e				o
Open-mid	ɛ				ɔ
Open			a

There are 5 tones -- high, mid, low, rising and falling. The rising and falling tones are described as 'aris from sequences of level tones', but it is not clear what is meant by that, as there are no long vowels in the language.