Tangale language
| Tangale | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2006 census)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tan |
| Glottolog |
nucl1696[2] |
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Ethnic territories of the Tangale-speaking people in Nigeria in green | |
Tangale (Tangle) is a West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria.[1]
Sounds
| 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.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tangale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nuclear Tangale". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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, doi:10.1017/s0041977x00025714
- 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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