Tegali language: Difference between revisions

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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=e25e27/> Tucker and Bryan list Rashad as almost identical to Tegali, "perhaps a mere variation of one language";<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa|last1=Tucker|first1=A. N.|last2=Bryan|first2=M. A.|publisher=Oxford University Press Published for the International African Institute|year=1956|location=London|pages=270}}</ref> however, Greenberg lists it as a separate language.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Greenberg|first=Joseph H.|date=1950-01-01|title=Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VII. Smaller Families; Index of Languages|jstor=3628564|journal=Southwestern Journal of Anthropology|volume=6|issue=4|pages=388–398|doi=10.1086/soutjanth.6.4.3628564|s2cid=146929514}}</ref> Welmers suggests Tingal as a dialect of Tegali;<ref>{{Cite book|title=African Language Structures|last=Welmers|first=William Everett|publisher=University of California Press|year=1973|location=Berkeley}}</ref> Tucker and Bryan report this as different from Tegali and Rashad, but as definitely belonging to the Tegali branch.<ref name=":2" />

There are 35108,700000 native speakers of Tegali in [[South Kordofan]] state, [[Sudan]].<ref name=e25e27/> Speakers are distributed in the hills between the Rashud-Rashad and Rashad-Umm Ruwaba roads, with a few outlying hills west of Rashad (including Tagoi and Tarjok) and scattered hills south of Rashad.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Voegelin|first1=C.F.|last2=Voegelin|first2=F.M.|date=May 1964|title=Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle One|jstor=30022465|journal=Anthropological Linguistics|volume=6|pages=195–196}}</ref>

Among the three dialects, Tegali has about 1688,000 speakers located on the [[Taqali|Tegali]] range. Rashad has about 520,000 speakers in the Rashad hills in the southern part of the Tegali range, also in Rashad town. Tingal (Kajakja) has about 2,100 speakers.<ref name=":0" />

* 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>