Plateau language of Nigeria
Rigwe |
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Nkarigwe |
Native to | Nigeria |
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Region | Plateau State, Kaduna State |
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Native speakers | (40,000 cited 1985)[1] |
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Language family | |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | iri |
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Glottolog | irig1241 |
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Rigwe |
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People | Nneirigwe |
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Language | Nkarigwe |
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ɾȉgʷȅ[2] |
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Person | ƴîɾìgʷȅ |
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People | yíɾìgʷȅ |
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Language | ɾȉgʷȅ |
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The Rigwe language, Nkarigwe, is a Plateau language of Nigeria spoken by the Irigwe people mainly found in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.[3][4]
Rigwe has highly complex phonology.[5] The presence of the lateral fricative /ɬ/ in Rigwe, unusual among Plateau languages, suggests that there used to be West Chadic languages in the area with this phoneme.[6]
Phonology
Rigwe phonology:[7]
Rigwe Tones | Toneme |
High | ˦ |
Mid | ˧ |
Mid-low | ˨ |
Low | ˩ |
References
- ^ Rigwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ "Irigwe (African people)". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ^ "Rigwe". Ethnologue. SIL International. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314325
- ^ Blench, Roger (2022). Contact between West Chadic and Plateau languages: new evidence languages: new evidence. 11-12 November 2022, presentation given at Universität Wien.
- ^ "PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
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