Nyangatom language

Nyangatom

Spoken in Ethiopia

Region Omo River region

Ethnicity Nyangatom

Native speakers 24,300 (2007 census)^[1]

Language family

Nilo-Saharan?

Eastern Sudanic
- Nilotic
  - Eastern
    - Lotuxo-Teso
      - Teso–Turkana
        
        Turkana
        
        Nyangatom

Writing system none

Language codes

ISO 639-3 nnj

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Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilo-Saharan language (Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic) 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.

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Consonants
- 1.2 Vowels
2 Bibliography
3 External links
4 References

Phonology

Consonants

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

Vowels

	Front	Central	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.

Bibliography

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

External links

Nyangatom entry in Ethnologue

References

^ 2007 Census