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Angami language, the Glossary

Angami (also: Gnamei, Ngami, Tsoghami, Tsugumi, Monr, Tsanglo, Tenyidie) is a Naga language spoken in the Naga Hills in the northeastern part of India, in Kohima district, Nagaland.^[1]

38 relations: Affricate, Alveolar consonant, Angami Naga, Angami–Pochuri languages, Approximant, Aspirated consonant, Back vowel, Burmese language, Central Tibeto-Burman languages, Central vowel, Close vowel, Consonant, Fricative, Front vowel, Glottalic consonant, India, Kohima district, Kuki-Chin–Naga languages, Labial consonant, Labialization, Laminal consonant, Latin script, Mid vowel, Naga Hills, Naga languages, Nagaland, Nasal consonant, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Plosive, Postalveolar consonant, R-colored vowel, Retroflex consonant, Tibetic languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Velar consonant, Voice onset time, Vowel.
Angami Naga
Angami–Pochuri languages
Languages of Nagaland

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Angami Naga

The Angamis are a major Naga ethnic group native to the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland.

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The Angami–Pochuri languages are a small family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southern Nagaland and Northern Manipur of northeast India. Angami language and Angami–Pochuri languages are languages of Nagaland.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Burmese language

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.

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Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Central Tibeto-Burman or Central Trans-Himalayan is a proposed branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family proposed by Scott DeLancey (2015) on the basis of shared morphological evidence.

See Angami language and Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Angami language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Glottalic consonant

In phonetics, a glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (movement or closure) of the glottis.

See Angami language and Glottalic consonant

India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Kohima district

Kohima District is a district of the Indian state of Nagaland.

See Angami language and Kohima district

Kuki-Chin–Naga languages

The Kuki-Chin–Naga languages are a geographic clustering of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family in James Matisoff's classification used by Ethnologue, which groups it under the non-monophyletic "Tibeto-Burman".

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

See Angami language and Labial consonant

Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

See Angami language and Labialization

Laminal consonant

A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue in contact with upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, to possibly, as far back as the prepalatal arch, although in the last contact may involve parts behind the blade as well.

See Angami language and Laminal consonant

Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

See Angami language and Latin script

Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Naga Hills

The Naga Hills, reaching a height of around, lie on the border of India and Burma (Myanmar).

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Naga languages

The Naga languages are a geographic and ethnic grouping of. Angami language and Naga languages are languages of Nagaland.

See Angami language and Naga languages

Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the north-eastern region of India.

See Angami language and Nagaland

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Angami language and Nasal consonant

Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Angami language and Open vowel

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Angami language and Palatal consonant

Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Angami language and Plosive

Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

See Angami language and Postalveolar consonant

R-colored vowel

An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant.

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Retroflex consonant

A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

See Angami language and Retroflex consonant

Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries,Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

See Angami language and Tibetic languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angami_language

Also known as Angami Naga language, ISO 639:njm, Tenyidie, Tenyidie language.

Angami language, the Glossary

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See also

Angami Naga

Angami–Pochuri languages

Languages of Nagaland

References