Nyimang language
| Nyimang | |
|---|---|
| Ama | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
Native speakers | (70,000 cited 1982)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyi |
| Glottolog | amas1236 |
Nyimang, also known as Ama, is an East Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Mountains.
It is spoken in Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Rilly (2010:182) lists two mutually unintelligible varieties, Ama and Mandal.[2] Blench lists the Mandal dialect separately.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | c | k | (ʔ) |
| voiced | (b) | ɟ | |||||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||
- [b] is heard as an allophone of /p/.[3]
Vowels
| +ATR | -ATR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | u | ɪ | ʊ | |
| Mid | o | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | ||||
References
- ^ Nyimang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
- ^ Turner, Darryl (2015). The morphosyntax of Katcha nominals: A Dynamic Syntax account. University of Edinburgh.
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