| Talodi | |
|---|---|
| Jomang | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Talodi |
| Native speakers | (1,500 cited 1989) |
| Language family | Niger–Congo? |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tlo |
| Glottolog | talo1250 |
| ELP | Talodi |
 Talodi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Grammar
Noun Classes
As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator. Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):
| Prefixe(s) | Examples (translated to English) |
|---|---|
| b-/y-, a- | bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife, |
| b-/g- | mountain, tree |
| w-/m- | guts (~g-/l-) |
| w-/g- | cow, gazelle |
| d̪-/r- | dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year |
| d̪-/l- | tongue |
| d-/l- | clothing |
| j-/m- | bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone |
| j-/g- | belly, breast, neck, tooth |
| s-/ ŋ- | hand, leg |
| g-/l- | arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm |
| ŋ-/ɲ- | child, eye, fish |
| b- | rain, smoke |
| m- | word/language |
| ḓ- | work |
| d- | dust (~ŋ-) |
| r- | food |
| l- | night |
| j- | cloud, salt, sun |
| y- | thing(s) |
| g- | bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind |
| ŋ- | blood, dust (~d-), fat, water |
| ø- | meat (~g-) |
References
- Talodi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Schadeberg, Thilo Christian (1981). A Survey of Kordofanian: The Talodi Group. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. p. 175.
| Languages of Sudan | |
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| Official languages | |
| Indigenous languages | |
| Other languages | |
| Main foreign languages | |
| Kordofanian languages (geographic) | |||||||
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| Talodi–Heiban |
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| Katla-Rashad |
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| Kadu |
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| Lafofa | |||||||
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