Nyangatom language
Nilotic language of Ethiopia
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::summary Nilotic language of Ethiopia ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox language"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Nyangatom |
| states | Ethiopia |
| region | Omo River region |
| ethnicity | Nyangatom |
| speakers | |
| date | 2007 census |
| ref | |
| familycolor | Nilo-Saharan |
| fam2 | Eastern Sudanic? |
| fam3 | Southern Eastern |
| fam4 | Nilotic |
| fam5 | Eastern |
| fam6 | Ateker–Lotuko–Maa |
| fam7 | Ateker |
| fam8 | Turkanic |
| iso3 | nnj |
| glotto | nyan1315 |
| glottorefname | Nyangatom |
| script | none |
| notice | IPA |
| :: |
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Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages include Toposa and Turkana, both of which have a level of mutual intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana.
Phonology
Vowels
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| Front | Back | Close | Near-close | Close-mid | Open-mid | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :: |
- Vowel length is contrastive in Nyangatom, as in dʒík 'completely' vs. dʒíík 'always'
- Before a pause, short vowels carrying a single, simple tone are devoiced.
Consonants
::data[format=table] | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Nasal | Plosive/ Affricate | Voiceless | Voiced | Fricative | Flap | Approximant | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::
Moges Yigezu, however, analyzes Nyangatom as having implosive stops, rather than voiced egressive stops.
Bibliography
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 2007. "Ñaŋatom language" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 1131–1132.
References
References
- [http://www.csa.gov.et/index.php?option=com_rubberdoc&view=doc&id=264&format=raw&Itemid=521 2007 Census]
- Yigezu, Moges. "Some notes on Implosive consonants in Nyangatom." Studies in Ethiopian Languages 5 (2016): 11-20. [http://157.7.222.190/SEL/pub/2016/Moges-2016.pdf]
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