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{{Distinguish|Javanese language{{!}}Tegal language}}
{{Short description|Rashad language spoken in Sudan}}
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<!-- Instructions for the language info box are at [[Template talk:Language]]) -->==Classification==
The Rashad family of language consists of two [[Dialect continuum|dialect clusters]], Tegali and [[Tagoi language|Tagoi]], which share about 70% basic vocabulary on the 100-word [[Swadesh list]]. They are spoken on two mountain ranges to the north and north-west of Rashad.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A description of the Orig language: (Southern Kordofan), based on the notes of Fr. Carlo Muratori. Tervuren: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale|last1=Schadeberg|first1=Thilo C.|last2=Elias|first2=Philip|publisher=Musee Royal De L'afrique Centrale|year=1979|pages=3}}</ref> These languages are spoken in the Tegali Hills in the north-east of the [[Nuba Mountains]], the home of the former "Tegali Kingdom".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stevenson|first=R. C.|title=Linguistic Research in the Nuba Mountains—Ii|date=January 1964|jstor=41716860|journal=Sudan Notes and Records|volume=45|pages=79–102}}</ref> The most conspicuous difference between the two dialect clusters is that Tagoi has a complex system of [[noun class]]es while Tegali does not. Different explanations exist for why Tegali dialects lack
==Dialects/varieties==
Tegali has three varieties, Rashad (Gom, Kom, Kome, Ngakom), Tegali, and Tingal (Kajaja, Kajakja). ''[[Ethnologue]]'' states that Rashed and Tegali dialects are nearly identical.<ref name=
==Geographic distribution==
There are
===Dialects/varieties distribution===
Among the three dialects, Tegali has about
== Phonology ==
=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Postalveolar consonant|Post-alv.]]/<br>[[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
|{{IPA link|ɲ}}
|{{IPA link|ŋ}}
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|-
! rowspan="3" |[[Plosive]]
!<small>voiceless</small>
|{{IPA link|p}}
|{{IPA link|t}}
|{{IPA link|c}}
|{{IPA link|k}}
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|-
!<small>voiced</small>
|{{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|d}}
|{{IPA link|ɟ}}
|{{IPA link|ɡ}}
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|-
![[Prenasalized consonant|<small>prenasal</small>]]
|{{IPA link|ᵐb}}
|{{IPA link|ⁿd}}
|
|{{IPA link|ᵑɡ}}
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|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative]]
|{{IPA link|f}}
|{{IPA link|s}}
|{{IPA link|ʃ}}
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|({{IPA link|h}})
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
|
|{{IPA link|l}}
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|-
! colspan="2" |[[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
|
|{{IPA link|r}}
|{{IPA link|ɽ}}
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|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant]]
|{{IPA link|w}}
|
|{{IPA link|j}}
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|}
* /ɽ/ corresponds to [r] commonly heard in Tagoi
* A retroflex plosive /ɖ/ is heard in the Tagom dialect.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Aldawi |first=Maha Abdu |title=An initial sketch of the Tagom noun phrase |last2=Mohammed Nashid |first2=Sawsan Abdel-Aziz |publisher=Cologne: Köppe |year=2018 |location=In Gertrud Schneider-Blum and [[Birgit Hellwig]] and Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal (eds.), Nuba Mountain Language Studies: New Insights |pages=129-151}}</ref>
* /s/ and /h/ vary between dialects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bryan |first=M. A. |title=Tegali-Tagoi |last2=Tucker |first2=A. N. |publisher=Routledge |year=2017 |location=Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa |pages=367}}</ref>
=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPA link|i}}
|
|{{IPA link|u}}
|-
![[Near-close vowel|Near-close]]
|{{IPA link|ɪ}}
|
|{{IPA link|ʊ}}
|-
![[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
|{{IPA link|e}}
| rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|ə}}
|{{IPA link|o}}
|-
![[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
|{{IPA link|ɛ}}
|{{IPA link|ɔ}}
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|{{IPA link|a}}
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|}
* Sounds [ɨ, ʌ] are also heard in the Tagom dialect.<ref name=":1" />
==Examples==
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