Koalib dialects and locations (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):
Nginyukwur dialect: Hadra, Nyukwur, and Umm Heitan
Ngirere dialect: Abri area
Ngunduna dialect: Koalib hills area
Nguqwurang dialect: Turum and Umm Berumbita
Phonology
Consonants
The voiced retroflex equivalent is an implosive sound [ᶑ] rather than a standard plosive [ɖ].
Gemination occurs among plosive, nasal, liquid and approximant sounds.
Sounds /f, t, ʃ, k, kʷ/ in intervocalic or pre-consonantal position can be heard as voiced [v, ð, ʒ, ɡ, ɡʷ]. In post-consonantal position, /f, t, ʃ, k/ are heard as [v, ð, ʒ, ɡ].
In final position, sounds /ɟ, f/ are heard as [c, p].
Sounds /p, t, ʈ, c, k, kʷ/ in intervocalic position can be heard as tense [pː, tː, ʈː, cː, kː, kːʷ].[3]
Vowels
Writing system
Capital and small at letters in Doulos SIL typeface
It is written using the Latin script,[2] but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign (@) for transcribing the letter ع in Arabicloanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D (lowercase) and U+2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode Consortium in 2004 declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter due to lack of evidence of use.[4]
SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.[5] However, they have marked this PUA representation as deprecated since September 2014, and the current version of their corporate PUA character assignments package recommends using U+24D0ⓐCIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A and U+24B6ⒶCIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A for that letter instead.[6]
Publications
The New Testament was published in Koalib in 1967.
^Charis SIL Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine font documentation, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.
^Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (January 17, 2019) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. SIL International Archived 2007-12-01 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 59-60. Retrieved on July 20, 2020.
External links
Koalib language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
Rere Koalib basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database