Talodi language
Talodi language of Sudan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
Grammar
Noun Classes
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.[2] Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):
| Prefixe(s) | Examples (translated to English) |
|---|---|
| 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-) |
