Talodi language

Talodi or Jomang (Ajomang, Gajomang), is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Talodi is spoken in Tasomi and Tata villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Talodi
Jomang
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity	Talodi
Native speakers	(1,500 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Talodi languages Talodi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tlo
Glottolog	talo1250
ELP	Talodi
Talodi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Grammar

Noun Classes

As most languages of the Talodi Family, it uses noun classes to indicate if the word is in the singular or a plural form. There exist both two-class and one-class gender groups, and in all of them mostly consonant prefixes are used as an indicator.^[2] Following is presented the noun class chart of Talodi after Schadeberg (1981: 50–51):

Prefixe(s)	Examples (translated to English)
b-/y-, a-	bird, old man, person, snake, stick, woman/wife,
b-/g-	mountain, tree
w-/m-	guts (~g-/l-)
w-/g-	cow, gazelle
d̪-/r-	dog, fire, horn, liver, mouth, river, road, root, rope, tail, woods, year
d̪-/l-	tongue
d-/l-	clothing
j-/m-	bone, day, egg, finger, fruit, head, heart, star, stone
j-/g-	belly, breast, neck, tooth
s-/ ŋ-	hand, leg
g-/l-	arm, back, branch, ear, feather/wing, guts (~w-/m-), hole, louse, moon/month, nail, nose, old woman, skin, spear, stone, worm
ŋ-/ɲ-	child, eye, fish
b-	rain, smoke
m-	word/language
ḓ-	work
d-	dust (~ŋ-)
r-	food
l-	night
j-	cloud, salt, sun
y-	thing(s)
g-	bark, earth, grass, meat (~ø-), name, sand, sky, wind
ŋ-	blood, dust (~d-), fat, water
ø-	meat (~g-)