Temein_language

Temein language

Temein language

Eastern Sudanic language spoken in Sudan

Not to be confused with the Temein languages, a language family that includes Temein.

Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.

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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

Consonants

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  • /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

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References

  1. [1]
    Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (1966). The Temein Group. In Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa (Handbook of African Languages), 2nd edn.: London: Oxford University Press. pp. 324–334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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