Nyangatom language

Nyangatom
Nyangatom
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Omo River region
Ethnicity	Nyangatom
Native speakers	24,000 (2007 census)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Kir–Abbaian? Nilotic Eastern Nilotic Ateker–Lotuko–Maa Ateker Turkanic Nyangatom; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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.

Phonology

Vowels

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

Vowel length is contrastive in Nyangatom, as in dʒík 'completely' vs. dʒíík 'always'
Before a pause, short vowels carrying a single, simple tone are devoiced.

Consonants

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

Bibliography

Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. 2007. "Ñaŋatom language" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 1131–1132.

References

^ 2007 Census

[1] 2007 Census

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