Anaang (Annang) is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.
| 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 |
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
editConsonants
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.
