Irigwe

Rigwe language

Rigwe language

Plateau language of Nigeria

The Rigwe language, Nkarigwe, is a Plateau language of Nigeria spoken by the Irigwe people mainly found in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.[3][4]

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Rigwe has highly complex phonology.[5] The presence of the lateral fricative /ɬ/ in Rigwe, unusual among Plateau languages, suggests that there used to be West Chadic languages in the area with this phoneme.[6]

Phonology

Rigwe phonology:[7]

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References

  1. [1]
    Rigwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. [3]
    "Irigwe (African people)". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Rigwe". Ethnologue. SIL International. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  5. [5]
    Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314325
  6. [6]
    Blench, Roger (2022). Contact between West Chadic and Plateau languages: new evidence languages: new evidence. 11-12 November 2022, presentation given at Universität Wien.
  7. [7]
    "PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2022-06-10.


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