Tegali language

Tegali has three varieties, Rashad (Gom, Kom, Kome, Ngakom), Tegali, and Tingal (Kajaja, Kajakja). Ethnologue states that Rashed and Tegali dialects are nearly identical. Tucker and Bryan list Rashad as almost identical to Tegali, "perhaps a mere variation of one language";{{Cite book|title=The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa|last1=Tucker|first1=A. N.|last2=Bryan|first2=M. A.|publisher=Oxford University Press Published for the International African Institute|year=1956|location=London|pages=270}} however, Greenberg lists it as a separate language.{{Cite journal|last=Greenberg|first=Joseph H.|date=1950-01-01|title=Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VII. Smaller Families; Index of Languages|jstor=3628564|journal=Southwestern Journal of Anthropology|volume=6|issue=4|pages=388–398|doi=10.1086/soutjanth.6.4.3628564|s2cid=146929514}} Welmers suggests Tingal as a dialect of Tegali;{{Cite book|title=African Language Structures|last=Welmers|first=William Everett|publisher=University of California Press|year=1973|location=Berkeley}} Tucker and Bryan report this as different from Tegali and Rashad, but as definitely belonging to the Tegali branch.

There are 108,000 native speakers of Tegali in South Kordofan state, Sudan. Speakers are distributed in the hills between the Rashud-Rashad and Rashad-Umm Ruwaba roads, with a few outlying hills west of Rashad (including Tagoi and Tarjok) and scattered hills south of Rashad.{{Cite journal|last1=Voegelin|first1=C.F.|last2=Voegelin|first2=F.M.|date=May 1964|title=Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle One|jstor=30022465|journal=Anthropological Linguistics|volume=6|pages=195–196}}

Among the three dialects, Tegali has about 88,000 speakers located on the Tegali range. Rashad has about 20,000 speakers in the Rashad hills in the southern part of the Tegali range, also in Rashad town. Tingal (Kajakja) has about 2,100 speakers.

• /ɽ/ corresponds to [r] commonly heard in Tagoi
• A retroflex plosive /ɖ/ is heard in the Tagom dialect.{{Cite book |last=Aldawi |first=Maha Abdu |title=An initial sketch of the Tagom noun phrase |last2=Mohammed Nashid |first2=Sawsan Abdel-Aziz |publisher=Cologne: Köppe |year=2018 |location=In Gertrud Schneider-Blum and Birgit Hellwig and Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal (eds.), Nuba Mountain Language Studies: New Insights |pages=129-151}}
• /s/ and /h/ vary between dialects.{{Cite book |last=Bryan |first=M. A. |title=Tegali-Tagoi |last2=Tucker |first2=A. N. |publisher=Routledge |year=2017 |location=Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa |pages=367}}

• Sounds [ɨ, ʌ] are also heard in the Tagom dialect.

Tegali has a counting system similar to that of Tagoi. But now they seemed have developed a more complete numeral system. There is an option for the number 20 'fəŋəndən rəkkʊ'.{{Cite web|url=https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Tegali.htm|title=Tegali, Sudan|last=Norton|first=Russell|date=January 25, 2008|website=Numeral Systems of the World's Languages}}

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/182/guide Tegali at the Endangered Languages Project]
• Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin. 2017. [http://glottolog.org Glottolog 3.0.] Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• Tegali at the [https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Tegali.htm Numeral Systems of the World's Languages]

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