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Nyimang, also known as Ama, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan by the Nyimang people who are a sub-group of the Nuba people.

It is spoken in Al Fous, Fuony, Hajar Sultan, Kakara, Kalara, Koromiti, Nitil, Salara, Tundia, and other villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Rilly (2010:182) lists two mutually unintelligible varieties, Ama and Mandal. Blench lists the Mandal dialect separately.

Phonology

Consonants

• /s/ is heard as when before front vowels.
• /l/ can be heard as a retroflex when before front vowels.
• /f/ can also be heard as bilabial in free variation.

Vowels

• /i, u/ can be heard as in lax position.
• /o/ can have an allophone of when in the position of /ɽ/.

References

1. Nyimang at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
2. Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
3. Stevenson, Roland C. (1938). A grammar of the Nyimang language (Nuba Mountains).
4. Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (2017). Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa, 2nd edn. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 312–313.

External links

• Ama basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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