Tangale language

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Tangale
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
 70,000 (1994)[1]
130,000  (1995)[2]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tan
Ethnic territories of the Tangale-speaking people in Nigeria in green

Tangale (Tangle) is a West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria.[3]

Sounds

Tangale vowels[4]
  Front Central Back
close open close
Close i ɪ ʊ u
Mid e ɛ ɔ o
Open a

A prominent feature of Tangale is vowel harmony. Suffixes control whether all the vowels in a word are open or close.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Frajzyngier (1994:449)
  2. ↑ Tangale reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 van der Hulst & van de Weijer (1995:496)

References

  • Frajzyngier, Zygmunt (1994), "review of A dictionary of the Tangale language", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 57 (2): 449–450 
  • Jungraithmayr, Hermann (1991), A Dictionary of the Tangale Language, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, ISBN 3496005939 
  • van der Hulst, Harry; van de Weijer, Jeroen (1995), "Vowel Harmony", in Goldsmith, John A., The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Blackwell, pp. 495–534 

Further reading

  • Jungraithmayr, Herrmann (1971), "The Tangale vowel system reconsidered", Journal of African Languages 10: 28–33 
  • Kidda, M. (1985), Tangale phonology: A descriptive analysis., University of Illinois, Champaign 
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