Tama language
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Tama, or Tamongobo, is the primary language spoken by the Tama people in Ouaddai, eastern Chad and in Darfur, western Sudan.[1] It is a Taman language which belongs to the Eastern Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Miisiirii is often considered a dialect, though it is not particularly close.
Demographics
Tama is spoken by 63,000 people in Dar Tama, a well irrigated area near Guéréda that extends from Kebkebiya village to nearby Sudan. There are two nearly identical dialects, one spoken in the northern and central areas, and another one spoken in the south.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voicelessScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | t̪ | k | |||||
| voicedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | b | d̪ | ɟ | g | ||||
| implosiveScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ɓ | ɗ̪ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ɭ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
Vowels
| +ATR | -ATR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | u | ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Mid | e | o | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | ʌ̈ | a | ||||
Vowel length is also distinctive.[3]
References
External links
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- ↑ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. Template:ISBN
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