Ghulfan language

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Ghulfan
Uncunwee
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Mountains
EthnicityGhulfan
Native speakers
40,000 (2022)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Hill Nubian language spoken in the central Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 40,000 people in the Ghulfan Kurgul and Ghulfan Morung hills, south of Dilling. The villages in which the language is spoken are Dabri, Karkandi, Katang, Kurgul, Namang, Ninya, Moring, Ota, Shigda, and Tarda. It is closely related to Kadaru, with which it forms the Kadaru-Ghulfan subgroup of Hill Nubian.[2]

    Ethnologue reports that the use of Ghulfan is decreasing as younger speakers switch to

    monolingual speakers of the language.[2]

    Phonology

    Consonants

    Labial Alveolar Retroflex Post-alv./
    Palatal     		Velar
    Nasal m
    n
         		ɲ ŋ
    Plosive/
    Affricate     		voiceless
    t
         		ʈ tʃ k
    voiced b
    d
         		ɖ dʒ ɡ
    Fricative ʃ
    Lateral
    l
    Rhotic
    r
         		ɽ
    Approximant w j

    Vowels

    Front Central Back
    Close i iː u uː
    Near-close ɪ ʊ
    Close-mid e eː o oː
    Open-mid ɛ ɔ
    Open a aː

    [3]

    References

    1. ^ Ghulfan at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
    2. ^ a b "Ghulfan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
    3. ^ Williams, Robert S.; Comfort, Jade (n.d.). Ghulfan Grammar Sketch.

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