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Nyole | |
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Lunyole | |
Native to | Uganda |
Region | Butaleja District |
Ethnicity | Banyole |
Native speakers | 340,000 (2002 census) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
nuj |
Glottolog |
nyol1238 |
JE.35
[2] | |
Nyole (also LoNyole, Lunyole, Nyuli) is a Bantu language spoken by the Banyole in Butaleja District, Uganda. There is 61% lexical similarity with a related but different Nyole language in Kenya.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k |
voiced | b | d | dʒ | g | |
voiced prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮdʒ | ᵑg | |
Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | s | x | |
voiced | β | ||||
Approximant | w | l~ ɾ | j | (w) |
Nyole has series of voiceless, voiced, and prenasalized stops. /w/ is labio-velar.
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Low | a |
Nyole has an interesting development from Proto-Bantu *p → Nyole /ŋ/. Schadeberg (1989) connects this sound change to rhinoglottophilia, where the sound change developed first as *[p] → [ɸ] → [h]. Then, given the acoustic similarity of [h] and breathy voice to nasalization, the sound change progressed as [h] → [h̃] → [ŋ]. The velar place of articulation development is due to velar nasals being the least perceptible of the nasals and its marginal status in (pre-)Nyole and other Bantu languages. In closely related neighboring languages, *p developed variously into /h/ or /w/ or was deleted.
This historical development results in so-called "crazy" alternations, like /n/ + /ŋ/ resulting in /p/ as in the following:
In the above two words, when the first person singular subject prefix /n-/ is added to the stem starting with /ŋ/, the initial consonant surfaces as /p/. In other forms (like /oxu-ŋuliira/ "to hear" and /oxu-ŋumula/ "to rest"), the original stem-initial /ŋ/ can be seen.
a | aa | b | bb | c | d | e | ee | f | g | h | i | ii | j | k | l | m | n | ny | ŋ | o | oo | p | r | s | t | u | uu | v | w | y | z |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (March 2018) |
Nyole | |
---|---|
Lunyole | |
Native to | Uganda |
Region | Butaleja District |
Ethnicity | Banyole |
Native speakers | 340,000 (2002 census) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
nuj |
Glottolog |
nyol1238 |
JE.35
[2] | |
Nyole (also LoNyole, Lunyole, Nyuli) is a Bantu language spoken by the Banyole in Butaleja District, Uganda. There is 61% lexical similarity with a related but different Nyole language in Kenya.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k |
voiced | b | d | dʒ | g | |
voiced prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮdʒ | ᵑg | |
Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | s | x | |
voiced | β | ||||
Approximant | w | l~ ɾ | j | (w) |
Nyole has series of voiceless, voiced, and prenasalized stops. /w/ is labio-velar.
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
High | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Low | a |
Nyole has an interesting development from Proto-Bantu *p → Nyole /ŋ/. Schadeberg (1989) connects this sound change to rhinoglottophilia, where the sound change developed first as *[p] → [ɸ] → [h]. Then, given the acoustic similarity of [h] and breathy voice to nasalization, the sound change progressed as [h] → [h̃] → [ŋ]. The velar place of articulation development is due to velar nasals being the least perceptible of the nasals and its marginal status in (pre-)Nyole and other Bantu languages. In closely related neighboring languages, *p developed variously into /h/ or /w/ or was deleted.
This historical development results in so-called "crazy" alternations, like /n/ + /ŋ/ resulting in /p/ as in the following:
In the above two words, when the first person singular subject prefix /n-/ is added to the stem starting with /ŋ/, the initial consonant surfaces as /p/. In other forms (like /oxu-ŋuliira/ "to hear" and /oxu-ŋumula/ "to rest"), the original stem-initial /ŋ/ can be seen.
a | aa | b | bb | c | d | e | ee | f | g | h | i | ii | j | k | l | m | n | ny | ŋ | o | oo | p | r | s | t | u | uu | v | w | y | z |