Anuak language

Anuak
Anuak
Native to	Ethiopia, South Sudan
Region	Gambela Region, Greater Upper Nile
Ethnicity	Anuak people
Native speakers	(140,000 cited 1991–2007)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Western Nilotic Luo Northern Luo Jur Anuak; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	anu
Glottolog	anua1242

Anuak or Anywa is a Luo language which belongs to the western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the western part of Ethiopia and also in South Sudan by the Anuak people. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro.^[2] Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.^[3] The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions, which also includes glossed texts.

Phonology

Anuak is notable for lacking phonemic fricatives.^[4]

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n̪	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ affricate	fortis	p	t̪	t	c	k
Plosive/ affricate	lenis	b	d̪	d	ɟ	ɡ
Approximant		w		l	j
Trill				r

Vowels

	Front	Back
	Front	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i iː		u uː
Near-Close	ɪ ɪː		ʊ ʊː
Close-mid	e eː		o oː
Open-mid	ɛ ɛː	ʌ ʌː	ɔ ɔː
Open	a aː

Diphthongs

	Front	Back
Close	ie	uo
Near-Close	ɪɛ	ʊɔ

Tones


Description	IPA
Rising	˩˥
High	˦
Mid	˧
Low	˨

References

^ Anuak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
^ Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Anuak sound inventory (PH). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.) PHOIBLE 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1165, Accessed on 2021-06-11.)

External links

World Atlas of Language Structures information on Anywa

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[e18-1] Anuak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[3] Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5

[4] Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Anuak sound inventory (PH). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.) PHOIBLE 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1165, Accessed on 2021-06-11.)

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