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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
Plosive/ affricate	lenis	b	d̪	d	ɟ	ɡ
Approximant		w		l	j
Trill				r

		Labial		Dental/ Alveolar			Post-Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Labio-Velar		Glottal
		plain	pal./lab.	plain	palatal	lab.	plain	palatal/lab.	Palatal	plain	palatal/lab.	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p		t		tʷ	tʃ	tʃʲ		k	kʷ	kp	kpʷ
	prenazalized			nt			ntʃ			ŋk
	voiced	b	bʲ	d			dʒ	dʒʷ		g	gʲ	gb
	prenazalized	mb		nd						ŋg		ŋmgb
Fricative		f		s	sʲ	sʷ				ɣ				h
Nasal		m	mʷ	n					ɲ	ŋ
Approximant				l					j			w

Vowels

	Front	Back
	Front	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

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ ʉ	u
Close-Mid	e	ǝ	o
Open-Mid	ɛ	ǝ	ɔ
Open	a

Tones


Description	IPA
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.)

[1] Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[2] Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5

[3] 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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