Sar language
| Sar | |
|---|---|
| Madjingay | |
| Native to | Chad |
Native speakers | 180,000 (1993 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
Sar
Nar
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mwm |
| Glottolog |
sarr1246[2] |
Sar or Sara, also known as Madjingay and Sara Madjingay is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad, and the lingua franca of regional capital of Sarh.
Phonology
The consonants are as follows.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Post-alveolar /palatal |
Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop/ affricate |
tenuis | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| prenasalized | m͡b | n͡d | n͡dʒ | ŋ͡ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Liquid | oral | l | ɽ | |||
| nasalized | ɽ̃ | |||||
| Semi-vowel | oral | j | w | |||
| nasalized | j̃ | |||||
There are three tones.[4]
| Tone | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| high | ɡáŋɡá | drum |
| mid | māl | scavenger |
| low | jàbə̀ | hippopotamus |
References
- ↑ Sar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ (French) Fournier, Maurice, Les consonnes du sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 37-44, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
- ↑ (French) Moundo Ndimajibay, Nei-Balway, Les limites des modifications en sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 45-58, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
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