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'''Anuak''' or '''Anywa''' is a [[Luo languages|Luo]] language which belongs to the [[Western Nilotic languages|western Nilotic]] branch of the [[Nilotic languages|Nilotic language family]]. It is spoken primarily in the Western part of [[Ethiopia]] by the [[Anuak people|Anuak]]. Other names for this language include: ''Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro''.<ref>Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.</ref> Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.<ref>Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5</ref> The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) ''Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions'', which also includes glossed texts.
==Phonology==
Anuak is notable for laking phonemic fricatives<ref>Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Anuak sound inventory (PH).
In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.)
PHOIBLE 2.0.
Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
(Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1165, Accessed on 2021-06-11.)
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===Consonants===
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