Karon language
The Karon language is an endangered language of Senegal and Gambia. It belongs to the Bak branch of the Niger–Congo language family, and is particularly closely related to the Mlomp language.
Karon | |
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Native to | Senegal, Gambia |
Region | Southwest Senegal coast |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2007)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | krx |
Glottolog | karo1294 [2] |
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
prenasal | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᶮtʃ | ᵑk | ||
Nasal | plain | m | n | ɲ | ||
tense | mː | ɲː | ||||
Fricative | f | s | h | |||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | |
Close | i iː | ĩ | u uː | ũ | ||
Mid | e eː | ẽ | o oː | õ | ||
Open | a aː | ã |
Advanced tongue root is marked with an acute accent /á/.[3]
gollark: Incorrect.
gollark: Please rigorously justify this.
gollark: Maybe I should deploy *further* bees against Lyricly.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393> ‽
gollark: DDGBot is dead‽ Perhaps it is time for ABR RoboticSearchoid™.
References
- Karon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Sambou, Pierre (2002). Phonologie et elements de grammaire du jóola karon.
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