Sar language
| Sar | |
|---|---|
| Madjingay | |
| Native to | Chad |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mwm |
| Glottolog | sarr1246 |
Sar or Sara, also known as Madjingay and Sara Madjingay is a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad, and the lingua franca of regional capital of Sarh.
Phonology
The consonants are as follows.[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Postalveolar /Palatal |
Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | implosive | plain | implosive | |||||
| Stop/ affricate |
tenuis | p | t | k | ||||
| voiced | b | ɓ | d | ɗ | ɡ | |||
| prenasalized | m͡b | n͡d | ŋ͡ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| prenasalized | n͡dʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Liquid | oral | l | ɽ | |||||
| nasalized | ɽ̃ | |||||||
| Semi-vowel | oral | j | w | |||||
| nasalized | j̃ | |||||||
Vowels and nasal vowels are as follows:
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ | |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| ə | ɔ | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Tone | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| high | ɡáŋɡá | drum |
| mid | māl | scavenger |
| low | jàbə̀ | hippopotamus |
| nasal | tã | sauce |
References
- ^ Sar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Template:Fr Fournier, Maurice, Les consonnes du sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 37-44, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
- ^ Template:Fr Moundo Ndimajibay, Nei-Balway, Les limites des modifications en sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 45-58, Paris, SELAF, 1977, ISBN 2-85297-019-8
- ^ "PanAfriL10n - PanAfrLoc - Sara". PanAfrican Localisation Resource Wiki. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
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