Igbebė [IGB]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersIgbebė is spoken by a population of around 10,000 in South Sudan.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Igbebė
Igbebė is a tribal language spoken by the tribe of the same name from South Sudan. Each of the five vowels, as well as it's regular form (a), has a glottalised (ȧ) and a lengthened (â) form, represented by the diacritics. The glottalised i however has an umlaut (ï). Some consonants can also be lengthened by doubling up, so S /s/ becomes Ss /s:/, Sh /ʃ/ becomes Shsh /ʃ:/ and so on.
Igbebė is a fairly simple language, not very metaphorical and with very little use for modernistic, technological vocabulary.
Igbebė is a fairly simple language, not very metaphorical and with very little use for modernistic, technological vocabulary.
Sound samples in Igbebė
Some sound samples of Igbebė. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Thȧnjatî Igbebė.
I speak English
I speak English
Dȧmnėne zu̇jȧ akȧne jonj mmezû. Shâl wammėj ffanȧj tratrȧshȧj jonj shâl ûdapapuaj. Shâl...
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and con...
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and con...
Language family relationships
Language treeSub-saharan Tribal
⤷ Igabee
⤷ Igbebė
⤷ Igabee
⤷ Igbebė
[view] About Sub-saharan TribalA collection of tribal languages from the sub-saharan regions of Africa
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m m: | n n: | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f f: | θ θ: | s | z | ʃ ʃ: | h h: | ||||||||||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ | j | w |
Blends | mbl | nd | ml | gb | gbɹ | mn | tɹ | ndɹ | ndʒ | hn |
pf | mb |
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
Close | u uˀ u: | |||||
Near-close | ɪ ɪˀ ɪ: | |||||
Close-mid | e eˀ e: | |||||
Open-mid | ɔ ɔˀ ɔ: | |||||
Near-open | æ æˀ æ: |
Polyphthongs | uæ | ɔe | æu | eɔ |
Stress informationIf the word contains two syllables, such as Njȧnjȯsh, then stress falls on the first syllable. In words that have three or more syllables, such as ȧgȧgȧ, stress falls on the second syllable.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Igbebė. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
IgbebėOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa a /æ/ | Â â â shâ /æ:/ | Ȧ ȧ ȧ tȧ /æˀ/ | Bb aba /b/ | Dd dûd /d/ | Ee e /e/ | Ê ê ê shê /e:/ | Ė ė ė tė /eˀ/ | Ff afa /f/ | Gg gege /g/ | Hh heo /h/ | Ii i /ɪ/ |
Î î î shî /ɪ:/ | Ï ï ï tï /ɪˀ/ | Jj jok /d͡ʒ/ | Kk keke /k/ | Ll lal /l/ | Mm ama /m/ | Nn nun /n/ | Oo o /ɔ/ | Ô ô ô shô /ɔ:/ | Ȯ ȯ ȯ tȯ /ɔˀ/ | Pp apa /p/, /p/ | Rr ara /ɹ/ |
Ss sûs /s/ | SH sh shûsh /ʃ/ | Tt ata /t/ | TH th thûth /θ/ | Uu u /u/ | Û û û shû /u:/ | U̇ u̇ u̇ tu̇ /uˀ/ | Ww waw /w/ | Yy yok /j/ | Zz aza /z/ | ||
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