Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.

Temein
Ronge
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityTemein
Native speakers
13,000 (2006)[1]
(6,000 in the ancestral area, 7,000 scattered in other towns)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3teq
Glottolognucl1339
ELPTemein
Temein is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Ronge is an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people are ɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔ and the language lɔ́ŋɔ na rɔŋɛ; Dimmendaal has ɔ́ràntɛ̀t for a person, kààkɪ́nɪ́ ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀ for the people, and ŋɔ́nɔ́t ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ for the language.

Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d ɟ g
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Fricative s
Rhotic r
Approximant w l j
  • /p/ may have allophones of [ɸ, f] when in word-initial position.
  • /s/ may have an allophone of [ʃ] in word-medial intervocalic positions.
  • The sequence /nt/ can have an allophone of [ɽ] in intervocalic positions.[2]

Vowels

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Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ ʊ
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

References

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  1. ^ Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (1966). The Temein Group. In Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa (Handbook of African Languages), 2nd edn.: London: Oxford University Press. pp. 324–334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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