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| Inor | |
|---|---|
| Ennemor | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 280,000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ior |
| Glottolog | inor1238 |
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Inor (pronounced[inoːr]), sometimes calledEnnemor, is anAfroasiatic language spoken in centralEthiopia. One of theGurage languages, it is mainly spoken within theGurage Zone in theSouthern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, as well as by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especiallyAddis Ababa. In addition to the morphological complexity that is common to all Semitic languages, Inor exhibits the very complexmorphophonology characteristic ofWest Gurage languages.
Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto, and the extinct dialectMesmes are all sometimes considered dialects of Inor.
Inor possessesnasal vowels, which are unusual for a Gurage language. Many of these may be the result of historicalrhinoglottophilia.
| labial | alveolar | alveo- palatal | palatal | velar | glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | plain | labial | plain | labial | |||||
| Stops and affricates | ejective | t’ | tʃ’ | cʼ | k’ | kʷ’ | ||||
| voiceless | p | pʷ | t | tʃ | c | k | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʷ | |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | dʒ | ɟ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
| Fricatives | voiceless | f | fʷ | s | ʃ | ç | x | xʷ | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||||||
| Nasals | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | ||||||
| Approximants | plain | β̞ | (l) | j | w | |||||
| nasalized | β̞̃ | |||||||||
| Rhotics | plain | r | ||||||||
| nasalized | r̃ | |||||||||
| front | central | back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | i | ɨ | u |
| mid | e | ə | o |
| low | æ | a | |
[ɨ] may be regarded as largely epenthetic and only marginally phonemic.[5]
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