Anuak language
Anuak | |
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Native to | Ethiopia, South Sudan |
Region | Gambela Region, Greater Upper Nile |
Ethnicity | Anuak people |
Native speakers | (140,000 cited 1991–2007)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | anu |
Glottolog | anua1242 |
Anuak or Anywa is a Luo language which belongs to the western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Western part of Ethiopia by the Anuak. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro.[2] Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.[3] The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions, which also includes glossed texts.
Phonology[]
Anuak is notable for lacking phonemic fricatives.[4]
Consonants[]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Plosive/ affricate |
fortis | p | t̪ | t | c | k |
lenis | b | d̪ | d | ɟ | ɡ | |
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Trill | r |
Vowels[]
Front | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|
Unrounded | Rounded | ||
Close | i iː | u uː | |
Near-Close | ɪ ɪː | ʊ ʊː | |
Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ʌ ʌː | ɔ ɔː |
Open | a aː |
Diphthongs[]
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
Close | ie | uo |
Near-Close | ɪɛ | ʊɔ |
Tones[]
Description | IPA |
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Rising | ˩˥ |
High | ˦ |
Mid | ˧ |
Low | ˨ |
References[]
- ^ Anuak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
- ^ Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Anuak sound inventory (PH). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.) PHOIBLE 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1165, Accessed on 2021-06-11.)
External links[]
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Anywa
Categories:
- Languages of Ethiopia
- Luo languages
- Nilo-Saharan language stubs
- Ethiopia stubs