Talodi language
Appearance
Talodi | |
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Jomang | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Hills |
Ethnicity | Talodi |
Native speakers | (1,500 cited 1989)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tlo |
Glottolog | talo1250 |
ELP | Talodi |
![]() Talodi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Grammar
[edit]Noun Classes
[edit]As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator.[2] Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):
Prefixe(s) | Examples (translated to English) |
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b-/y-, a- | bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife, |
b-/g- | mountain, tree |
w-/m- | guts (~g-/l-) |
w-/g- | cow, gazelle |
d̪-/r- | dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year |
d̪-/l- | tongue |
d-/l- | clothing |
j-/m- | bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone |
j-/g- | belly, breast, neck, tooth |
s-/ ŋ- | hand, leg |
g-/l- | arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm |
ŋ-/ɲ- | child, eye, fish |
b- | rain, smoke |
m- | word/language |
ḓ- | work |
d- | dust (~ŋ-) |
r- | food |
l- | night |
j- | cloud, salt, sun |
y- | thing(s) |
g- | bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind |
ŋ- | blood, dust (~d-), fat, water |
ø- | meat (~g-) |
References
[edit]- ^ Talodi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Schadeberg, Thilo Christian (1981). A Survey of Kordofanian: The Talodi Group. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. p. 175.