Inor language
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Endegen language
)| Inor | |
|---|---|
| Ennemor | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 280,000)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ior |
| Glottolog | inor1238 |
Inor (pronounced West Gurage languages.
Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto, and the extinct dialect Mesmes are all sometimes considered dialects of Inor.
Inor possesses nasal vowels, which are unusual for a Gurage language. Many of these may be the result of historical rhinoglottophilia.
Phonology
Consonants
| labial | alveolar | alveo- palatal |
palatal | velar | glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | plain | labial | plain | labial | |||||
affricates
|
ejective | t’ |
tʃ’ | cʼ | k’ | kʷ’ | ||||
| voiceless | p | pʷ | t |
tʃ | c | k | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʷ | |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d |
dʒ | ɟ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
Fricatives
|
voiceless | f | fʷ | s | ʃ | ç | x | xʷ | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||||||
Nasals
|
m | mʷ | n |
ɲ | ||||||
Approximants
|
plain | β̞ |
( l ) |
j | w | |||||
| nasalized | β̞̃ | |||||||||
| Rhotics | plain | r |
||||||||
| nasalized | r̃ | |||||||||
Vowels
| front | central | back | |
|---|---|---|---|
high
|
i | ɨ | u |
| mid | e | ə | o |
low
|
æ | a | |
[ɨ] may be regarded as largely epenthetic and only marginally phonemic.[5]
References
- ^ Inor at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ Chamora & Hetzron (2000:10)
- ^ Abza 2016, p. 33.
- ^ Chamora & Hetzron (2000:13–16)
- ^ Chamora & Hetzron (2000:13)
Bibliography
- Abza, Tsehay (2016). Binyam Sisay Mendisu; .
- Berhanu Chamora. "Consonant distribution in Inor", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 53–67.
- Chamora, Berhanu; Hetzron, Robert (2000), Inor, Munich: Lincom Europa, ISBN 3-89586-977-5
- Bustorf, Dirk. (2005). "Ennämor Ethnography”, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2: D-Ha, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 307-08.
- Boivin, Robert (1996). "Spontaneous Nasalization in Inor", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 21–33.
- Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
- ISBN 3-447-02041-5
- Leslau, W. (1983). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part V : Chaha - Ennemor. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 16. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3-515-03965-1
- Leslau, W. (1996). "Inor Lullabies", in: Africa 66/2, pp. 280–287.
- Voigt, Rainer.(2005). "Ennämor Language”, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2: D-Ha, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 307.
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