| Anaang | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Southern Nigeria |
| Region | Akwa Ibom State |
| Ethnicity | Anaang |
Native speakers | 2.9 million (2020)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | anw |
| Glottolog | anaa1238 |
| ELP | Anaang |
Anaang (Annang) is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.
The Annang speaker of English tends to apply the grammatical rules of Annang in his use of English, often violating the intuition of native speakers of English.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Labio- velar |
Uvular | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | kʷ | k͡p | |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡʷ | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʁ | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||
- Consonants /p, b, t, d, k, k͡p, f, m, n, l, w/ may be heard as palatalized [ʲ] when occurring before /i/.[3]
- /ʁ/ may also be heard as a trill [ʀ] when before a front vowel.
- /r/ may also be heard as a tap [ɾ].[4]
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ʉ ʉː | u uː |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open-mid | ɔ ɔː | ||
| Open | a aː |
See also
[edit]- Anaang word list (Wiktionary)
References
[edit]- ^ Anaang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Udondata, Joseph. "A Contrastive Study of English and Annang Structural Patterns".
- ^ a b c Ekpe, Mfon Brownson (2013). Articulatory Analysis of Palatalization in Anaang. Redeemer’s University, Mowe, Nigeria.
- ^ a b Michael, Itoro Anietie (2009). The syllable structure of the Anaang language. University of Ibadan.
