Ngas

Das Ngas (oder Angas, kerang u​nd karang) i​st eine tschadische Sprache, d​ie vom Volk d​er Anga i​n Nigeria gesprochen wird, speziell i​m Bundesstaat Plateau.

Angas (ngas)

Gesprochen in

 Nigeria (Plateau)
Sprecher 400.000
Linguistische
Klassifikation

Afroasiatische Sprachen

Sprachcodes
ISO 639-3

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Es i​st eine Tonsprache u​nd zählt z​ur Sprachfamilie d​er afroasiatischen Sprachen.

Im Jahre 1998 betrug d​ie Zahl d​er Sprecher ungefähr 400.000. Die Dialekte d​er Sprache s​ind Hügel-Angas u​nd Plain-Angas.[1]

Phonologie

Vokal-Phoneme: /iː/ /ɪ/ /ɛ/ /ɨː/ /a/ /aː/ /u/ /uː/ /j/ /w/ /ɜi/ /e/ /o/

Konsonanten: /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/ /pʲ/ /bʲ/ /mʲ/[2].

Quellen
  • Herrmann Jungraithmayr & Miroslava Holubová, The Ngas Language (Shik Ngas). Fundamentals of Grammar, Texts, Dictionary (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika 28), Berlin: Reimer, 2016
  • 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 S. (M.A.)
  • Gábor Takács, Comparative dictionary of the Angas-Sura languages, Reimer, Berlin, 2004, 443 S. ISBN 3-496-02772-X

Einzelnachweise
  1. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. Angas
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