Anuak language
| Anuak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia, South Sudan |
| Region | Gambela Region, Upper Nile State |
| Ethnicity | Anuak people |
Native speakers | (140,000 cited 1991–2007)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | anu |
Anuak or Anywa is a Nilotic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is spoken primarily in the Western part of Ethiopia by the Anuak. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro.[2] Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.[3] The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions, which also includes glossed texts.
Anywa does not have phonemic fricatives.
Notes
- ^ Anuak at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
References
- Keefer, Aurelia, James Keefer and Charles Taylor (1976): Anyuak. in: Bender, Lionel M, Donald J. Bowen, Robert Cooper, Charles Ferguson (eds.): Language in Ethiopia. Oxford. pp 164–170.
- Lusted, Marie (1976): Anywa. in: Bender, M. Lionel (ed.): "The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia". East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 495–512.
- Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Reh, Mechthild (1999): Anywa-English and English-Anywa Dictionary. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 134 pp. ISBN 3-89645-132-4.
External links
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue]
- Entry for Anuak at Rosetta Project
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Anywa
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