Sar language
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.
| Sar | |
|---|---|
| Madjingay | |
| Native to | Chad |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mwm |
| Glottolog | sarr1246[2] |
Phonology
The consonants are as follows.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Postalveolar /Palatal |
Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | implosive | plain | implosive | |||||
| Stop/ affricate |
tenuis | p | t | k | ||||
| voiced | b | ɓ | d | ɗ | ɡ | |||
| prenasalized | m͡b | n͡d | ŋ͡ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| prenasalized | n͡dʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Liquid | oral | l | ɽ | |||||
| nasalized | ɽ̃ | |||||||
| Semi-vowel | oral | j | w | |||||
| nasalized | j̃ | |||||||
Vowels and nasal vowels are as follows:
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| ə | ɔ | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Tone | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| high | ɡáŋɡá | drum |
| mid | māl | scavenger |
| low | jàbə̀ | hippopotamus |
| nasal | tã | sauce |
gollark: I aim to avoid mocking the *people* holding beliefs, since it is quite easy to fall into traps of unfalsifiable stupid beliefs and they can't really be blamed for it, but the beliefs are totally fair game.
gollark: Well, *allowed* yes, do I think they *should* no.
gollark: I'm in it.
gollark: Yes, I particularly like to mock those.
gollark: I do not think religions are very sensible and I reserve the right to UTTERLY mock beliefs I consider stupid.
References
- Sar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- (in 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
- (in 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
- "PanAfriL10n - PanAfrLoc - Sara". PanAfrican Localisation Resource Wiki. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
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