Talodi language spoken in Sudan
Dagik, or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).[2]
Phonology
Consonants
- Sounds /p, t̪, t, k/ can have intervocalic allophones as sonorants [β, ð, ɾ, ɣ], and voiced allophones [b, d̪, d, ɡ] when after nasals.
- Sounds [f, h] only have marginal status.
- /r/ can also be heard as a tap [ɾ] allophone.
Vowels
- /u/ can also assimilate to a close-mid [o] in different environments.[2]
References
- ^ Dagik at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ a b Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.
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