Nyimang language
| Nyimang | |
|---|---|
| Ama | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Nyimang people |
Native speakers | 160,000 (2017)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyi |
| Glottolog | amas1236 |
Nyimang, also known as Ama, is a Nilo-Saharan language of the East Sudanic language branch 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 | Palatal/ Retroflex |
Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | t̪ | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | d | ɟ | ɡ | |
| Fricative | s | (ʃ) | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Trill | r | ɽ | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
- /s/ is heard as [ʃ] when before front vowels.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
- /i, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, u] in lax position.[3]
References
- ^ Nyimang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
- ^ Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (2017). Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa, 2nd edn. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 312–313.
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