Anaang language

Anaang
Native to	Southern Nigeria
Region	Akwa Ibom State
Ethnicity	Anaang
Native speakers	2.9 million (2020) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Lower Cross Ibibio-Efik Anaang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	anw
Glottolog	anaa1238
ELP	Anaang

Anaang (Annang) is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.

The Annang speaker of English tends to apply the grammatical rules of Annang in his use of English, often violating the intuition of native speakers of English. ^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Anaang consonants ^[3]

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-alv./ Palatal	Velar		Labio- velar	Uvular
					plain	lab.
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	kʷ	k͡p
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ		ɡʷ
Fricative		f	s					ʁ
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	l	j

• Consonants /p, b, t, d, k, k͡p, f, m, n, l, w/ may be heard as palatalized [ʲ] when occurring before /i/. ^[3]
• /ʁ/ may also be heard as a trill [ʀ] when before a front vowel.
• /r/ may also be heard as a tap [ɾ]. ^[4]

Vowels

Anaang vowels ^{[3] [4]}

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː	ʉ ʉː	u uː
Close-mid	e eː		o oː
Open-mid			ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

See also

• Anaang word list (Wiktionary)

References

1. Anaang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Udondata, Joseph. "A Contrastive Study of English and Annang Structural Patterns".
3. Ekpe, Mfon Brownson (2013). Articulatory Analysis of Palatalization in Anaang. Redeemer’s University, Mowe, Nigeria.
4. Michael, Itoro Anietie (2009). The syllable structure of the Anaang language. University of Ibadan.