Nyangatom language

Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages include Toposa and Turkana, both of which have a level of mutual intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana.

Nyangatom
Native toEthiopia
RegionOmo River region
EthnicityNyangatom
Native speakers
24,000 (2007 census)[1]
none
Language codes
ISO 639-3nnj
Glottolognyan1315[2]

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Plosive Voiceless p t k
Voiced b d ɡ
Affricate Voiceless t͡ʃ
Voiced d͡ʒ
Fricative s
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Flap r
Approximant w l j

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ ʊ
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a
  • Vowel length is contrastive in Nyangatom, as in dʒík 'completely' vs. dʒíík 'always'
  • Before a pause, short vowels carrying a single, simple tone are devoiced.

Bibliography
  • Dimmendall, Gerrit J. 2007. "Ñaŋatom language" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 1131–1132.
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References
  1. 2007 Census
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyangatom". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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