Sar language
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Sar | |
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Madjingay | |
Native to | Chad |
Native speakers
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unknown (180,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Dialects |
Sar
Nar
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mwm |
Glottolog | sarr1246 [2] |
Sar or Sara, also known as Madjingay and Sara Madjingay is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad, and the lingua franca of regional capital of Sarh.
Phonology
The consonants are as follows.[3]
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Post-alveolar /palatal |
Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop/ affricate |
tenuis | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
prenasalized | m͡b | n͡d | n͡dʒ | ŋ͡ɡ | ||
Fricative | s | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Liquid | oral | l | ɽ | |||
nasalized | ɽ̃ | |||||
Semi-vowel | oral | j | w | |||
nasalized | j̃ |
There are three tones.[4]
Tone | Example | Gloss |
---|---|---|
high | ɡáŋɡá | drum |
mid | māl | scavenger |
low | jàbə̀ | hippopotamus |
References
- ↑ Sar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ (French) Fournier, Maurice, Les consonnes du sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 37-44, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
- ↑ (French) Moundo Ndimajibay, Nei-Balway, Les limites des modifications en sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 45-58, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
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