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Tarok language

Benue-Congo language spoken in northern Nigeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Tarok (Tarok: iTárók), also known as Yergama or Appa[1] is a language spoken by around 520,000[3] people primarily in the southeast of Nigeria's Plateau State, where it serves as a local lingua franca.[citation needed] Tarok is a member of the Plateau group of the Atlantic–Congo family.

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Phonology

Vowels

Tarok has seven phonemic vowels, /i ɨ u ɛ ə ɔ a/. The IPA symbols are included in the table below along with the orthographic form in angular brackets.

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Consonants

Tarok has an inventory of twenty-seven phonemic consonants, shown in the table below. Allophones are provided in parentheses.

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* The labiovelar nasal [ŋ͡m] occurs as an allophone of the syllabic nasal consonant before labiovelar plosives /k͡p/ and /g͡b/.[1]

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Names for other languages

As the local lingua franca, the Tarok feature prominently in the local ethnic composition of southeast Plateau State. Many Tarok clans can also trace their ancestries back to Chadic-speaking peoples, pointing to a long history of Chadic peoples assimilating into Tarok society. Some Tarok names for neighbouring languages according to Longtau (2004):[5]

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Orthography

Tarok alphabet
abɓc dɗeǝf gb
ghijkkp lmnnyŋ o
prssht uvwyz zh

Notes

^ Variants of this name are Yergəm and Yergum.[1]

References

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