Ngas language

Spoken in

Afro-Asiatic languages

  • Chadian languages Westtschadisch

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The Nga (or Angas, kerang and Karang ) is a Chadian language that is spoken by the people of Anga in Nigeria, especially in Plateau State.

It is a tonal language and belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family languages.

In 1998, the number of speakers was approximately 400,000. The dialects of the language are the hills and Angas Plain Angas.

Phonology

Vowel phonemes: / i ː / / ɪ / / ɛ / / ɨ ː / / a / / a ː / / u / / u ː / / j / / w / / ɜi / / e / / o /

Consonants: / p / / b / / ɓ / / t / / d / / ɗ / / c / / dj / / ʄ / / k / / ɡ / / tʃ / / dʒ / / f / / v / / s / / z / / ʃ / / ʒ / / ɣ / / m / / n / / ɲ / / ŋ / / l / / r / / h / / p ʲ / / b ʲ / / m ʲ /.

Swell

  • Donald A. Burquest, A Preliminary Study of Angas phonology, Institute of Linguistics, Zaria, 1971
  • Donald A. Burquest, A Grammar of Angas, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973 ( thèse )
  • Beverle Michaele Lax, The West -A branch of the Chadic language family: a comparative study of Hausa, Sha, Angas, Karekare, and Dera, Michigan State University, 1986, 132 pp. (MA)
  • Gábor Takács, Comparative Dictionary of the Angas - Sura languages ​​, Reimer, Berlin, 2004, 443 pp. ISBN 3-496-02772- X
Chadic languages Hanga language
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