Sar language

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| Sar | |
|---|---|
| Madjingay | |
| Native to | Chad |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mwm |
| Glottolog | sarr1246[2] |
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.[3]
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 |
There are three tones.[4][5]
| Tone | Example | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| high | ɡáŋɡá | drum |
| mid | māl | scavenger |
| low | jàbə̀ | hippopotamus |
| nasal | tã | sauce |
References
^ Sar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ (in French) 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
^ (in French) 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.
External links
- The Sara-Bagirmi Language Project -- Sar
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