Nyimang language
Nyimang | |
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Ámá | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | South Kordofan |
Ethnicity | Nyimang people |
Native speakers | 170,000 (2022)[1] |
Dialects |
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nyi |
Glottolog | amas1236 |
Nyimang, also known as Ama, is an
Nuba people
.
It is spoken in Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Rilly (2010:182) lists two mutually unintelligible varieties, Ama and Mandal.[2] Blench lists the Mandal dialect separately.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal/ Retroflex |
Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | t̪
|
t
|
k | ||
voiced | b | d̪
|
d
|
ɟ | ɡ | |
Fricative | f | s | (ʃ) | |||
Nasal | m | n
|
ɲ | ŋ | ||
Trill | r
|
ɽ | ||||
Approximant | w | l
|
j |
- /s/ is heard as [ʃ] when before front vowels.
- /l/ can be heard as a retroflex [ɭ] when before front vowels.
- /f/ can also be heard as bilabial [ɸ] in free variation.[3]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
- /i, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, ʊ] in lax position.
- /o/ can have an allophone of [ɵ] when in the position of /ɽ/.[4]
References
- ^ Nyimang at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ISBN 978-9042922372
- ^ Stevenson, Roland C. (1938). A grammar of the Nyimang language (Nuba Mountains).
- ^ Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (2017). Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa, 2nd edn. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 312–313.
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