| Suga | |
|---|---|
| Nizaa | |
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1985) |
| Language family | Niger–Congo? |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgi |
| Glottolog | suga1248 |
Suga, also known as Galim, Nyemnyem, and Nizaa, is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon.
Phonology
Vowels
Nizaa has 9 oral vowels /ɪ, ɯ, ʊ, ʏ, e, ɤ, o, ø, a/, along with long and nasalized long vowels /iː, uː, ɯː, eː, ɤː, oː, ɛː, ʌː, ɔː, aː, ĩː, ɯ̃ː, ũː, ɛ̃ː, ʌ̃ː, ɔ̃ː, ãː/.
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- | Velar | Labial– | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||
| Plosive/ | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | tʷ | tʃ | tʃʷ | k | kʷ | k͡p | ʔ | ʔʷ |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | dʷ | dʒ | dʒʷ | ɡ | ɡʷ | ɡ͡b | |||
| prenasalized | ᵐb | ᵐbʷ | ⁿd | ⁿdʷ | ᶮdʒ | ᶮdʒʷ | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | ͡ᵑᵐɡ͡b | |||
| implosive | ɓ | ɓʷ | ɗ | ɗʷ | ||||||||
| prenasalized implosive | ᵐɓ | ᵐɓʷ | ⁿɗ | ⁿɗʷ | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | nʷ | ɲ | ɲʷ | ||||||
| Approximant | voiced | l | j | ɥ | w | |||||||
| nasalized | lʷ | ɰ̃ | w̃ | |||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fʷ | s | sʷ | ʃ | ʃʷ | x | h | |||
| voiced | v | vʷ | z | zʷ | ɣ | |||||||
| prenasalized | ᶬv | ⁿz | ||||||||||
| Tap or Flap | ⱱ̟ | ɾ | ɾʷ | |||||||||
References
- Suga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Kjelsvik, Bjørghild (November 2002). "Verb chains in Nizaa". ResearchGate.
| Northern Bantoid languages | |
|---|---|
| Dakoid | |
| Mambiloid | |
| Other | |
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