Logo language
| Logo | |
|---|---|
| Logoti | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Region | Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Ethnicity | Logo people |
Native speakers | (210,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | log |
| Glottolog | logo1259 |
Logo is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 210,000 people in 1989 according to SIL.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Labial- velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | kp | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d̪ | g | gb | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | |||||
| voiced | dz | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | h | ||||
| voiced | z | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Flap | ɺ | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
- Logo also has /ʈr/ and /ɖr/.[2]
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Open | a |
Tones
Logo has high, mid, and low tones.[2]
References
- ^ Logo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c Green, Christopher; Moran, Steven (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). "Logo sound inventory (GM)". PHOIBLE. 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Retrieved 2024-09-25., citing Tucker, A. N. (1967). The Eastern Sudanic languages. London: International African Instutite.