Anuak language

Anuak
Native to	Ethiopia, South Sudan
Region	Gambela Region, Upper Nile State
Ethnicity	Anuak people
Native speakers	(140,000 cited 1991–2007)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Western Nilotic Luo Northern Jur Anuak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	anu
Glottolog	anua1242[2]

Anuak or Anywa is a Nilotic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is spoken primarily in the Western part of Ethiopia by the Anuak. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro.^[3] Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.^[4] The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions, which also includes glossed texts.

Anywa does not have phonemic fricatives.

Notes

1. Anuak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Anuak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
4. Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5

References

• Keefer, Aurelia, James Keefer and Charles Taylor (1976): Anyuak. in: Bender, Lionel M, Donald J. Bowen, Robert Cooper, Charles Ferguson (eds.): Language in Ethiopia. Oxford. pp 164–170.
• Lusted, Marie (1976): Anywa. in: Bender, M. Lionel (ed.): "The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia". East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 495–512.
• Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
• Reh, Mechthild (1999): Anywa-English and English-Anywa Dictionary. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 134 pp. ISBN 3-89645-132-4.

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Anywa