Abon language
Appearance
Abon | |
---|---|
Abõ | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Taraba State |
Ethnicity | Ba’ban |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1973)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | abo |
Glottolog | abon1238 |
Abon (Abõ) is a Tivoid language of Nigeria.
Phonology
Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
Trill | |||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʁ | h | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Long Consonants Chart
Letter | "Short" | "Long" | Example |
---|---|---|---|
kk | /k/ | /kk/ | Velar Plosive |
kp | /kp/ | /kp/ | Velar Bilabial Plosive |
mm | /m/ | /mm/ | Bilabial Nasal |
nn | /n/ | /nn/ | Alveolar Nasal |
NN | /N/ | /NN/ | Alveolar Nasal |
pp | /p/ | /pp/ | Bilabial Plosive |
tt | /t/ | /tt/ | Alveolar Plosive |
Vowel Chart of Abon Language[2]
Front | Central | Back | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
short | long | short | long | short | long | |||
High | /ɪ/ | /iː/ | /ii/ | /ʉ/ | /o/ | /uː/ | /uu/ | |
Mid | /eː/ | /ee/ | /ə/ | /ɔ/ | /Λ/ | |||
Low | /a/ | /aa/ |
References
- ^ Abon at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ "(PDF) A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
Further reading
- Ekpenyong, Moses & Udoinyang, Mfon & Urua, Eno-Abasi. (2009). A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems. Georgian Electronic Scientific Journal: Computer Science and Telecommunications. 623.