Temein language
| 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 | Temein |
 Temein is classified as Severely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Temein,also known asRon(g)e,is anEastern Sudanic languagespoken by theTemein peopleof theNuba HillsinSudan.
Rongeis an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people areɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔand the languagelɔ́ŋɔnarɔŋɛ;Dimmendaal hasɔ́ràntɛ̀tfor a person,kààkɪ́nɪ́ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀for the people, andŋɔ́nɔ́tnáɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛfor the language.
Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue,22nd edition).
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| 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]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
References
[edit]- ^TemeinatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
- ^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.
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- Temein language(Roger Blench 2007)