Masalit language

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Linguistic map of the non-Arab peoples of Darfur, showing the extent of the Masalit language in Sudan.

Masalit (autonym Masala/Masara; Template:Langx) is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Maban language group spoken by the Masalit people in Ouaddaï Region, Chad and West Darfur, Sudan.

Masalit, known as the Massalat, moved west into central-eastern Chad. Their ethnic population in Chad was Template:Sigfig as of the 1993 census, but only 10 speakers of their language were reported in 1991.[1]

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
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Close-mid Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
Open-mid Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
Open Template:IPA link

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
Stop/
Affricate 		voicelessScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link (Template:IPA link)
voicedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
prenasalScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
Fricative voicelessScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link Template:IPA link (Template:IPA link) Template:IPA link
voicedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link (Template:IPA link)
Trill Template:IPA link
Lateral Template:IPA link
Approximant labialScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IPA link Template:IPA link
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  • It has been stated that occasional click sounds Template:IPAblink and Template:IPAblink may occur, however; they are considered to be rare.
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  • Sounds /t, m, n, ŋ/ can occur as palatalized [tʲ, mʲ, nʲ, ŋʲ] before front vowels.
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  • Template:IPAblink is not a phonemic sound, and is only heard before word-initial vowels.
  • Sounds Script error: No such module "IPA". only occur in word-initial position.[2]

Sociolects

The Masalit language has two sociolects:

  • "Heavy" Masalit, spoken by higher-ranking people and those in the countryside, with a complicated agglutinative grammar
  • "Light" Masalit, spoken particularly in the home and in the market, with a somewhat simplified grammatical structure and many borrowings from Sudanese Arabic, the regional lingua franca and language of education.

References

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Further reading

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External links

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  1. ↑ Template:Ethnologue18
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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