Talodi language
{{Short description|Talodi language of Sudan}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Talodi
|altname=Jomang
|region=Nuba Hills
|states=Sudan
|ethnicity=Talodi
|speakers=1,500
|date=1989
|ref = e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Talodi–Heiban
|fam4=Talodi languages
|map2=Lang Status 20-CR.svg
|mapcaption2={{center|{{small|Talodi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}
|iso3=tlo
|glotto=talo1250
|glottorefname=Tasomi-Tata
}}
Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Grammar
= Noun Classes =
As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator.{{Cite book |last=Schadeberg |first=Thilo Christian |title=A Survey of Kordofanian: The Talodi Group |publisher=Helmut Buske |year=1981 |publication-place=Hamburg |pages=175 |language=en}} Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):
| class="wikitable"
|+ !Prefixe(s) !Examples (translated to English) |
| b-/y-, a-
|bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife, |
| b-/g-
|mountain, tree |
| w-/m-
|guts (~g-/l-) |
| w-/g-
|cow, gazelle |
| d̪-/r-
|dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year |
| d̪-/l-
|tongue |
| d-/l-
|clothing |
| j-/m-
|bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone |
| j-/g-
|belly, breast, neck, tooth |
| s-/ ŋ-
|hand, leg |
| g-/l-
|arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm |
| ŋ-/ɲ-
|child, eye, fish |
| b-
|rain, smoke |
| m-
|word/language |
| ḓ-
|work |
| d-
|dust (~ŋ-) |
| r-
|food |
| l-
|night |
| j-
|cloud, salt, sun |
| y-
|thing(s) |
| g-
|bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind |
| ŋ-
|blood, dust (~d-), fat, water |
| ø-
|meat (~g-) |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Languages of Sudan}}
{{Kordofanian languages}}
Category:Critically endangered languages
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