| Karon | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Senegal, Gambia |
| Region | Southwest Senegal coast |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | krx |
| Glottolog | karo1294 |
| Kalɔɔn | |
|---|---|
| Person | alɔɔn |
| Language | kägup kɔlɔɔnay |
The Karon or Kalɔɔn[2] language is an endangered language of Senegal and Gambia. It belongs to the Bak branch of the Niger–Congo language family, and is particularly closely related to the Mlomp language.
Karon is spoken in a coastal area north of the mouth of the Casamance River. A person is called alɔɔn in the language, and speakers refer to their own language as kägup kɔlɔɔnay.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| prenasal | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᶮtʃ | ᵑk | ||
| Nasal | plain | m | n | ɲ | ||
| tense | mː | ɲː | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | |
| Close | i iː | ĩ | u uː | ũ | ||
| Mid | e eː | ẽ | o oː | õ | ||
| Open | a aː | ã | ||||
Advanced tongue root is marked with an acute accent /á/.[3]
References
- ↑ Karon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- ↑ Sambou, Pierre (2002). Phonologie et elements de grammaire du jóola karon.
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