Tera language
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| Tera | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Nigeria | |
| Total speakers: | ~100,620 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu-Mandara A A.1 Western Tera |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | afa | |
| ISO 639-3: | ttr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tera is a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria.
Contents |
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Palatalized | Plain | Palatalized | Plain | Labialized | |||||
| Stop | Voiceless | p | pʲ | t | c | k | kʷ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||||
| Prenasalized | mb | nd | ɲɟ | ŋɡ | ŋɡʷ | |||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɓʲ | ɗ | ʄ | ɠ | |||||
| Fricative | Central | Voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | |||
| Voiced | v | vʲ | z | ʒ | ɣ | ɣʷ | ||||
| Lateral | Voiceless | ɬ | ||||||||
| Voiced | ɮ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||||
| Approximant | Lateral | l | ||||||||
| Central | j | (w) | ||||||||
[edit] Tone
Tera is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid and low tone.
