Talodi | |
Also Known As: | Jomang |
Region: | Nuba Hills |
States: | Sudan |
Ethnicity: | Talodi |
Speakers: | 1,500 |
Date: | 1989 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Talodi–Heiban |
Fam4: | Talodi languages |
Map2: | Lang Status 20-CR.svg |
Iso3: | tlo |
Glotto: | talo1250 |
Glottorefname: | Tasomi-Tata |
Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator.[1] Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):
b-/y-, a- | bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife, | |
b-/g- | mountain, tree | |
w-/m- | guts (~g-/l-) | |
w-/g- | cow, gazelle | |
d̪-/r- | dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year | |
d̪-/l- | tongue | |
d-/l- | clothing | |
j-/m- | bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone | |
j-/g- | belly, breast, neck, tooth | |
s-/ ŋ- | hand, leg | |
g-/l- | arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm | |
ŋ-/ɲ- | child, eye, fish | |
b- | rain, smoke | |
m- | word/language | |
ḓ- | work | |
d- | dust (~ŋ-) | |
r- | food | |
l- | night | |
j- | cloud, salt, sun | |
y- | thing(s) | |
g- | bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind | |
ŋ- | blood, dust (~d-), fat, water | |
ø- | meat (~g-) |