Anuak or Anywa is a
Luo Luo may refer to:
Luo peoples and languages
*Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa
**Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.
*** Luoland, th ...
language which belongs to the
western Nilotic
The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages; Themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The abo ...
branch of the
Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the western part of
Ethiopia
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and also in
South Sudan
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by the
Anuak people
The Anyuak, also known as Anyua and Anywaa, are a Luo Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of East Africa. The Anuak belong to the larger Luo family group. Their language is referred to as Dha-Anywaa. They are primarily found in Gambela Region in ...
. Other names for this language include: ''Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro''. Anuak,
Päri, and
Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster. The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) ''Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions'', which also includes glossed texts.
Phonology
Anuak is notable for lacking phonemic fricatives.
[Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Anuak sound inventory (PH).
In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.)
PHOIBLE 2.0.
Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
(Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1165, Accessed on 2021-06-11.)
]
Consonants
Vowels
Diphthongs
Tones
References
External links
*
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM i ...
information o
Anywa
Languages of Ethiopia
Luo languages
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