Paʼa language
Chadic language spoken in Nigeria
| Paʼa | |
|---|---|
| Afa | |
| Fucaka | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | (8,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pqa |
| Glottolog | paaa1242 |
| ELP | Pa'a |
| Person | FuCiki[2] |
|---|---|
| People | Foni |
| Language | FuCaka |
Paʼa, also known as Afa (Afawa) or Fucaka (autonym), is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1]
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | palatalized | |||
| Plosive | p b | t d | c ɟ | k g | kʷ gʷ | ʔ | |||
| Prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿɟ | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | ||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||||
| Ejective | s’ | ɬ’ | k’ | kʷ’ | |||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ɬ ɮ | ʃ ʒ | h ɦ | hʷ ɦʷ | hʲ ɦʲ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Approximant | r | l | j, ˀj | w | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
Additionally, the following diphthongs are recorded: /ei/, /au/.
Pa'a also has four tones;[3] high, mid, low, and falling.
Notes
- ^ a b Paʼa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ a b c Skinner, Margaret Gardner (1979). Aspects of Pa'anci Grammar (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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