Uduk language
{{Short description|Koman language spoken in Sudan}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Uduk
|altname=Tʼwampa
|pronunciation=
|states=Sudan, South Sudan
|region=
|ethnicity=Uduk people
|speakers= 22,000 in the Sudans
|dateprefix=undated; presumably after
|date=2005
|ref=e17
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|fam2=Komuz?
|fam3=Koman
|fam4=Central Koman
|fam5=Komo–Uduk
|iso3=udu
|glotto=uduk1239
|glottorefname=Uduk
|script=Latin
}}
Uduk, also known as Twʼampa (Tʼwampa), is a Koman language spoken in Sudan near the border with Ethiopia. Nearly the entire population fled to a refugee camp in Ethiopia during the Second Sudanese Civil War, but returned to Sudan once fighting stopped. The resurgence of hostilities in the Blue Nile province after 2011 once more resulted in the Uduk community having to enter refugee camps in Ethiopia and South Sudan.Killian 2015, pp. 4f
Phonology
=Consonants=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" | ! Bilabial ! Dental ! Alveolar ! Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal |
| rowspan="5" | Plosive
| {{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|pʷ}} | {{IPA link|t̪}} {{IPAblink|t̪ʷ}} | {{IPA link|t}} | | {{IPA link|c}} {{IPA link|cʷ}} | {{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|kʷ}} | {{IPA link|ʔ}} |
|---|
| aspirated
| {{IPA link|pʰ}} {{IPA link|pʰʷ}} | {{IPA link|t̪ʰ}} | {{IPA link|tʰ}} {{IPAblink|tʰʷ}} | | {{IPA link|cʰ}} {{IPA link|cʰʷ}} | {{IPA link|kʰ}} {{IPA link|kʰʷ}} | |
| ejective
| {{IPA link|pʼ}} | {{IPA link|t̪ʼ}} | {{IPA link|tʼ}} {{IPA link|tʼʷ}} | | {{IPA link|cʼ}} {{IPA link|cʼʷ}} | {{IPA link|kʼ}} {{IPA link|kʼʷ}} | |
| voiced
| {{IPA link|b}} {{IPA link|bʷ}} | {{IPA link|d̪}} | {{IPA link|d}} {{IPA link|dʷ}} | | {{IPA link|ɟ}} {{IPA link|ɟʷ}} | {{IPA link|ɡ}} {{IPA link|ɡʷ}} | |
| implosive
| {{IPA link|ɓ}} {{IPA link|ɓʷ}} | | {{IPA link|ɗ}} {{IPA link|ɗʷ}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" | Nasal
| {{IPA link|m}} {{IPAblink|mʷ}} | | {{IPA link|n}} | | {{IPA link|ɲ}} {{IPAblink|ɲʷ}} | {{IPA link|ŋ}} {{IPA link|ŋʷ}} | |
| colspan="2" | Fricative
| ({{IPA link|ɸ}}) | | {{IPA link|s}} | {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{IPA link|ʃʷ}} | | ({{IPA link|x}}) | {{IPA link|h}} |
| colspan="2" | Trill
| | | {{IPA link|r}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" | Approximant
| | | {{IPA link|l}} | | {{IPA link|j}} | {{IPA link|w}} | |
- Consonants in parentheses are allophones.
- Consonants in brackets are rare or marginal.
=Vowels=
References
{{reflist}}
- Don Killian (2015) [https://www.academia.edu/attachments/39331393/download_file?st=MTQ0NjE4NDc0MCwyMTMuNTUuMTA3LjcxLDIwOTQ0MTg%3D&s=swp-toolbar "Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morphosyntax"] Ph.D. thesis. University of Helsinki.
- Don Killian and Harald Hammarström (2010) "Notes on the morphosyntax of Uduk"
- Bender, M. L. 1983. Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon. Afrika und Übersee 66, 259–297.
{{Koman languages|state=uncollapsed}}
{{Languages of Ethiopia}}