Temein language

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Temein
Ronge
Native to Sudan
Region Nuba Hills
Ethnicity Temein
Native speakers
13,000 (2006) [1]
(6,000 in the ancestral area, 7,000 scattered in other towns)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 teq
Glottolog nucl1339
ELP Temein
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Temein is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.

Contents

Ronge is an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people are ɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔ and the language lɔ́ŋɔnarɔŋɛ; Dimmendaal has ɔ́ràntɛ̀t for a person, kààkɪ́nɪ́ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀ for the people, and ŋɔ́nɔ́tɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ for the language.

Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar
Plosive voicelessptk
voicedbdɟg
Nasal mnɲŋ
Fricative s
Rhotic r
Approximant wlj

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close iu
Near-close ɪʊ
Close-mid eo
Open-mid ɛɔ
Open a

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References

  1. Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (1966). The Temein Group. In Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa (Handbook of African Languages), 2nd edn.: London: Oxford University Press. pp. 324–334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)