Temein language
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| Temein | |
|---|---|
| Ronge | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Temein |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2006)[1] (6,000 in the ancestral area, 7,000 scattered in other towns) |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | teq |
| Glottolog | nucl1339 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| File:Lang Status 40-SE.svg Temein is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.
Ronge is an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people are ɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔ and the language lɔ́ŋɔ na rɔŋɛ; Dimmendaal has ɔ́ràntɛ̀t for a person, kààkɪ́nɪ́ ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀ for the people, and ŋɔ́nɔ́t ná ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ for the language.
Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d̪ | d | ɟ | g | |
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
- /p/ may have allophones of [ɸ, f] when in word-initial position.
- /s/ may have an allophone of [ʃ] in word-medial intervocalic positions.
- The sequence /nt/ can have an allophone of [ɽ] in intervocalic positions.[2]
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Temein language (Roger Blench 2007)