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Anuak or Anywa is a Luo language which belongs to the western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Western part of Ethiopia by the Anuak. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro.[1] Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.[2] 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[3]
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Plosive/ affricate |
fortis | p | t̪ | t | c | k |
lenis | b | d̪ | d | ɟ | ɡ | |
Approximant | w | l | j | |||
Trill | r |
Vowels
Front | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|
Unrounded | Rounded | ||
Close | i iː | u uː | |
Near-Close | ɪ ɪː | ʊ ʊː | |
Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ʌ ʌː | ɔ ɔː |
Open | a aː |
Diphthongs
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
Close | Interlingue pronunciation: [ie] | Error: {{IPA}}: unrecognized language code: uo |
Near-Close | Error: {{IPA}}: unrecognized language tag: ɪɛ | Error: {{IPA}}: unrecognized language tag: ʊɔ |
Tones
Description | IPA |
---|---|
Rising | ˩˥ |
High | ˦ |
Mid | ˧ |
Low | ˨ |
References
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
- ^ 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.)