Nyangatom language

Nyangatom (also Inyangatom, Donyiro, Dongiro, Idongiro) is a Nilo-Saharan language (Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic) spoken in Ethiopia by the Nyangatom people. It is an oral language only, having no working orthography at present. Related languages include Toposa and Turkana, both of which have a level of mutual intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t		k
	Voiced	b	d		ɡ
Affricate	Voiceless			t͡ʃ
	Voiced			d͡ʒ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Flap			r
Approximant		w	l	j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

• Vowel length is contrastive in Nyangatom, as in dʒík 'completely' vs. dʒíík 'always'
• Before a pause, short vowels carrying a single, simple tone are devoiced.

Bibliography

• Dimmendall, Gerrit J. 2007. "Ñaŋatom language" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 1131–1132.