Mwaghavul language

{{Short description|Afro-Asiatic language}} {{Infobox language |name=Mwaghavul |states=Nigeria |region=Plateau State |speakers=150,000 |date=2016 |ref=<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sur|title=Mwaghavul|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-08-16|language=en}}</ref> |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Chadic |fam3=West Chadic |fam4=Bole–Angas |fam5=Angas (A.3) |iso3=sur |glotto=mwag1236 |glottorefname=Mwaghavul }} '''Mwaghavul''' (also known as '''Sura''') is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria and predominantly in Mangu LGA.<ref name="e18">{{Ethnologue18|sur}}</ref>

Mwaghavul's dialects include Takas.<ref name="BlenchAtlas4">{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}</ref> The Mupun people is a related ethnic group.

Mwaghavul has one of the most elaborate systems of logophoricity known in any language.

== Phonology == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+Consonants ! colspan="2" | !Labial !Alveolar !Postalveolar !Palatal !Velar !Glottal |- ! rowspan="3" |Plosive/ Affricate !voiceless |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} |{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |({{IPA link|ʔ}}) |- !voiced |{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} |{{IPA link|d͡ʒ}} | |{{IPA link|g}} | |- !implosive |{{IPA link|ɓ}} |{{IPA link|ɗ}} | | | | |- ! rowspan="2" |Fricative !voiceless |{{IPA link|f}} |{{IPA link|s}} |{{IPA link|ʃ}} | | |{{IPA link|h}} |- !voiced |{{IPA link|v}} |{{IPA link|z}} |{{IPA link|ʒ}} | |({{IPA link|ɣ}}) | |- ! colspan="2" |Nasal |{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} |{{IPA link|ɲ}} | |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |- ! colspan="2" |Approximant | |{{IPA link|l}} | |{{IPA link|j}} |{{IPA link|w}} | |- ! colspan="2" |Trill | |{{IPA link|r}} | | | | |}

Mwaghavul has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Chadic/West/Mwaghavul/MwaghOP.htm|title=Roger Blench: Mwaghavul opening page|website=www.rogerblench.info|access-date=2018-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421035725/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Chadic/West/Mwaghavul/MwaghOP.htm|archive-date=2015-04-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Vowels ! !! Front!! Central!! Back |- ! Close | {{IPA link|i}} | {{IPA link|ɨ}} | {{IPA link|u}} |- ! Open | {{IPA link|e}} | {{IPA link|a}} | {{IPA link|o}} |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Roger Blench, [http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Chadic/West/Mwaghavul/Mwaghavul%20Dictionary.pdf ''Mwaghavul - English dictionary'']{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, unpublished. * Zygmunt Frajzyngier. 1993. ''A Grammar of Mupun''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.

==External links== * [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Chadic/West/A3/Mwaghavul/MwaghOP.htm Roger Blench: Mwaghavul opening page] - Mwaghavul webpage at rogerblench.info

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