Tagoi language
| Tagoi | |
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| ŋɔ̹́ɡɔ̹́lɛ̹́ | |
| Native to | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Tukam people |
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Native speakers
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(13,000 cited 1982) |
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Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | tago1246 |
The Tagoi language is a Kordofanian language, closely related to Tegali, spoken near the town of Rashad in southern Kordofan in Sudan, about 12 N, 31 E. Unlike Tegali, it has a complex noun class system, which appears to have been borrowed from more typical Niger–Congo languages. It has several dialects, including Umali (Tumale), Goy (Tagoi proper), Moreb, and Orig (ŋóóriɡ, Turjuk)
The following describes the Orig dialect.
The consonants are:
Stops are automatically voiced between two non-obstruents (obstruents = stops or fricatives.)
Stops and sonorants may occur geminate. Some consonant clusters are allowed (almost invariably two-consonant), most involving sonorants; prenasalised ones are particularly common.
ʃ, h, z are found in some Arabic loanwords.
The vowel system is unclear; phonetically, it seems to be basically: a, e, i, o, u, ɛ, ɔ, ɪ, ʊ, ə.
There seem to be three phonemic tones: high, low, and occasionally falling.
Each noun consists of a prefix plus a stem; the prefix identifies its noun class. It changes according to number.
The genders include:
In genitive (possessive) constructions, the head noun is followed by a linking element which agrees with it in class, followed by the possessor noun; e.g. ɲín ɲi-adam "children of Adam"; kʊs ki-gai "skull (ie bone of head)".
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