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(Redirected from Tʼwampa language) Koman language spoken in Sudan
Uduk
Tʼwampa
Native toSudan, South Sudan
EthnicityUduk people
Native speakers22,000 in the Sudans (undated; presumably after 2005)
Language familyNilo-Saharan?
Writing systemLatin
Language codes
ISO 639-3udu
Glottologuduk1239

Uduk, also known as Twʼampa (Tʼwampa), is a Koman language spoken in Sudan near the border with Ethiopia. Nearly the entire population fled to a refugee camp in Ethiopia during the Second Sudanese Civil War, but returned to Sudan once fighting stopped. The resurgence of hostilities in the Blue Nile province after 2011 once more resulted in the Uduk community having to enter refugee camps in Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Phonology

Consonants

  Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive unaspirated p pʷ t c cʷ k kʷ ʔ
aspirated pʰ pʰʷ t̪ʰ cʰ cʰʷ kʰ kʰʷ
ejective t̪ʼ tʼ tʼʷ cʼ cʼʷ kʼ kʼʷ
voiced b bʷ d dʷ ɟ ɟʷ ɡ ɡʷ
implosive ɓ ɓʷ ɗ ɗʷ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ
Fricative (ɸ) s ʃ ʃʷ (x) h
Trill r
Approximant l j w
  1. Consonants in parentheses are allophones.
  2. Consonants in brackets are rare or marginal.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

References

  1. Uduk at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) [REDACTED]
  2. Killian 2015, pp. 4f
  • Don Killian (2015) "Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morphosyntax" Ph.D. thesis. University of Helsinki.
  • Don Killian and Harald Hammarström (2010) "Notes on the morphosyntax of Uduk"
  • Bender, M. L. 1983. Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon. Afrika und Übersee 66, 259–297.
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