Oluʼbo language
| Oluʼbo | |
|---|---|
| Lolubo | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Oluʼbo |
Native speakers | 33,000 (2017)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lul |
| Glottolog | olub1238 |
Oluʼbo or Lolubo is a Central Sudanic language spoken by 33,000 Oluʼbo people in Southern Sudan.
Phonology
[edit ]Consonants
[edit ]| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Labial- velar |
Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | tʃ | ʈ | k | kp | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d̪ | dʒ | ɖ | g | gb | ||
| prenasalized | mb | nd̪ | ndʒ | ɳɖ | ŋg | ŋmgb | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | |||||
| voiced | v | z | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||
Vowels
[edit ]| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Open | a |
Vowels form two vowel harmony sets, based on advanced and retracted tongue root. The [-ATR] group is /ɪ,ɛ,ɔ,ʊ/, and the [+ATR] group is /i,e,o,u/.[3] /a/ is phonetically [-ATR] but is found in roots of both sets.[4]
There is a tenth vowel quality [ɤ], which only occurs after /u/. When /u/ and [ɤ] are in separate morphemes, [ɤ] is in free variation with [o].[5]
Tones
[edit ]Oluʼbo has high /˦/, mid /˧/, and low /˨/ tones.There are also six compound tones, low-mid /˨˧/, low-high /˨˦/, mid-low /˧˨/, mid-high /˧˦/, high-low /˦˨/, and high-mid /˦˧/.[6]
Notes
[edit ]- ^ Oluʼbo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
- ^ Andersen 1987, p. 45.
- ^ a b Andersen 1987, p. 40.
- ^ Andersen 1987, p. 41.
- ^ Andersen 1987, p. 44.
- ^ Andersen 1987, p. 48.
References
[edit ]- Andersen, Torben (1987). "An outline of Lulubo phonology". Studies in African Linguistics. 18: 39–65. doi:10.32473/sal.v18i1.107478.
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