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Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Chad

Not to be confused withNaaba language.

Naba
Tar Melbene
Native to	Chad
Region	Batha,Chari-Baguirmi prefectures
Ethnicity	Lisi
Native speakers	510,000 (2019)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Bongo–Bagirmi Bagirmi Naba
Dialects	Bilala Kuka Mendogo
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mne`
Glottolog	`naba1253`

Naba is aNilo-Saharan language spoken by approximately 500,000 people inChad.^[1] Those who speak this language are calledLisi, a collective name for three closely associated ethnic groups, theBilala, the Kuka and the Medogo, that represent the three dialects in which Naba is subdivided. They live mainly in theBatha Prefecture, but the Kuka also reside inChari-Baguirmi.Ethnologue estimates the lexical similarity among the three dialects to be no less than 99%.^[1]Arabic is often spoken as a second language.^[1]

Phonology

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Consonants

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		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	(p) b	t d	tʃ dʒ	k ɡ
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑɡ
	implosive	ɓ	ɗ
Fricative		f	s z			h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Rhotic			r /ɻ
Approximant		w	l	j

/f/ can also be heard as[p] in initial position, in free variation.
/tʃ/ can also be heard as[ʃ] when in intervocalic positions.
Affricate sounds/tʃ,dʒ/ are heard as palatal stop sounds[c,ɟ] when affected by fortition in pre-consonantal positions.
/r/ may be heard as approximants[ɻ,ɹ] in intervocalic positions. It may also be pronounced as a uvular trill[ʀ] when before back vowels in intervocalic positions.

Vowels

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	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Vowels/i,u,e,o/ have allophones[ɪ,ʊ,ɛ,ɔ] when in closed syllables.
A central[ə] may be heard in fast speech and in vowel epenthesis.^[2]

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^dNaba atEthnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Scherrer, Elaine Marie (2022).A phonological description of Naba. Afrika und Übersee 95. pp. 76–134.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)