Abon language
| Abon | |
|---|---|
| Abõ | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Taraba State |
| Ethnicity | Ba’ban |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1973)[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | abo |
| Glottolog | abon1238[2] |
Abon (Abõ) is a Tivoid language of Nigeria.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Trill | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʁ | h | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||||
Long Consonants Chart
| Letter | "Short" | "Long" | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| kk | /k/ | /kk/ | Velar Plosive |
| kp | /kp/ | /kp/ | Velar Bilabial Plosive |
| mm | /m/ | /mm/ | Bilabial Nasal |
| nn | /n/ | /nn/ | Alveolar Nasal |
| NN | /N/ | /NN/ | Alveolar Nasal |
| pp | /p/ | /pp/ | Bilabial Plosive |
| tt | /t/ | /tt/ | Alveolar Plosive |
Vowel Chart of Abon Language[3]
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |||
| High | /ɪ/ | /iː/ | /ii/ | /ʉ/ | /o/ | /uː/ | /uu/ | |
| Mid | /eː/ | /ee/ | /ə/ | /ɔ/ | /Λ/ | |||
| Low | /a/ | /aa/ | ||||||
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gollark: I've got an inbred messy 29G aeon with fragments of prize checker and a 14G thuwed for some weird reason.
gollark: There are gazillions of alt omens.
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gollark: My friend knows about them more than I do.
References
- Abon at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "(PDF) A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
Further reading
- Ekpenyong, Moses & Udoinyang, Mfon & Urua, Eno-Abasi. (2009). A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems. Georgian Electronic Scientific Journal: Computer Science and Telecommunications. 623.
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