Ngiti language

Ngiti
South Lendu
Ndruna
Native to	Congo (DRC)
Ethnicity	Ngiti people
Native speakers	(100,000 cited 1991) [1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Eastern Lendu Ngiti
Language codes
ISO 639-3	niy
Glottolog	ngit1239

Ngiti is a Central Sudanic language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Phonology

Consonant Phonemes ^{[2] : 31}

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Labial-velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɖ ɽ	ɟ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
	voiceless	p	t	ʈ ɽ	c	k	k͡p
	prenasalised	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᶯɖɽ	ᶮɟ	ᵑɡ	ᵑ͡ᵐɡ͡b
Implosive	voiced	ɓ		ᶑ	ʄ
	voiceless	ɓ̥		ᶑ̥	ʄ̥			ʔ
Affricate	voiced	b͡v	d͡z
	voiceless	p͡f	t͡s
Fricative	voiced	v	z
	voiceless	f	s					h
	prenasalised	ᵐv	ⁿz
Approximant		β	l	r	j		w

Vowel Phonemes ^{[2] : 55}

		Front	Back
High	+ATR	i	u
	-ATR	ɪ	ʊ
Mid	+ATR	e	o
	-ATR	ɛ	ɔ
Low		a

Numeral system

Ngiti is reported to have a base-32 number system with base-4 cycles. ^[3] The usage of base-10 number system is also used. The following is a list of some Ngiti numerals in base-32.

Number	Numeral	Meaning
1	atdí
2	ɔyɔ
3	ɨ̀bhʉ
4	ɨ̀fɔ
5	imbo
6	aza
7	àrʉ̀bhʉ̀	8-1
8	àrʉ̀
9	àrʉ̀gyètdi	8+1
10	ɨdrɛ
11	otsi-vi	12-1
12	otsi
13	otsi dɔ̀ atdí	12+1
14	otsi dɔ̀ ɔyɔ	12+2
15	ɔpɨ-vi	16-1
16	ɔpɨ
17	ɔpɨ dɔ̀ atdí	16+1
18	ɔpɨ dɔ̀ ɔyɔ	16+2
19	àbà-vi	20-1
20	àbà
24	àròtsí
28	àdzòro
32	wǎdhɨ̀
64	ɔyɔ wǎdhɨ̀	2×32
96	ɨ̀bhʉ wǎdhɨ̀	3×32
128	ɨ̀fɔ wǎdhɨ̀	4×32

Notes and references

1. Ngiti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Kutsch Lojenga, Constance (1994). Ngiti: a Central-Sudanic language of Zaire (PhD). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
3. Hammarström, Harald (2006), "Rarities in Numeral Systems", Proceedings of Rara & Rarissima Conference (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-19, retrieved 2009-10-23