Nyangatom language

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Nyangatom
Native to Ethiopia
Region Omo River region
Ethnicity Nyangatom
Native speakers
24,000 (2007 census) [1]
none
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nnj
Glottolog nyan1315
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Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages include Toposa and Turkana, both of which have a level of mutual intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana.

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Phonology

Vowels

Front Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ ʊ
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
Voiceless p t t͡ʃ k
Voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ
Fricative s
Flap r
Approximant w l j

Moges Yigezu, however, analyzes Nyangatom as having implosive stops, rather than voiced egressive stops. [2]

Bibliography

References

  1. 2007 Census
  2. Yigezu, Moges. "Some notes on Implosive consonants in Nyangatom." Studies in Ethiopian Languages 5 (2016): 11-20.