Asụsụ Masalit

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Masalit Kanaa Masarak
Spoken in:	Chad, Sudan
Region:	Ouaddaï, Sila (Chad), West Darfur, South Darfur (Sudan),
Total speakers:	Templeeti:Sigfig
Language family:	Niluṣeḥrawit?  Maban   Masalit languages    Masalit
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	—
ISO 639-3:	—

Map asụsụ nke ndị na-abụghị ndị Arab nke Darfur, na-egosi oke asụsụ Masalit na Sudan.

Masalit (autonym Masala/Masara; Arabic: ماساليت) bụ asụsụ Nilo-Saharan nke otu asụsụ Maban nke ndị Masalit na-asụ na mpaghara Ouaddaï, Chad na West Darfur, Sudan.

Masalit, nke a maara dị ka Massalat, kwagara n'ebe ọdịda anyanwụ n'etiti ọwụwa anyanwụ Chad. Ndị agbụrụ ha na Chad bụ 30,000 ka ọnụ ọgụgụ 1993 si dị, mana ọ bụ naanị mmadụ 10 na-asụ asụsụ ha ka a kọrọ na 1991.

Ọmụmụ ụdaolu

Ụdaume

	N'ihu	Central	Ịlaghachi azụ
N'akụkụ	i	ɨ	u
N'etiti etiti	e	ə	o
N'etiti oghere	ɛ	ʌ	ɔ
Emeghe		a

Mgbochiume

		Akpụkpọ ahụ	Ezé / Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Mkpịsị aka
Ụgbọ imi		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Kwụsị/Africate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	(ʔ)
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿd͡ʒ	ᵑɡ
Ihe na-esiri ike	voiceless	f	s	ʃ	(x)	h
	voiced	v	(z)
Ihe na-atọ ụtọ			r
N'akụkụ			l
Ihe atụ	labial			ɥ	w
	central			j

• E kwuwo na ụda ịpị aka mgbe ụfọdụ nwere ike ịpụta, Otú ọ dị; a na-ewere ha dị ka ihe dị ụkọ.
• Ụda /r, l, m, k/ nwere ike ịpụta dị ka geminated [rː, lː, mː, kː].
• Ụda /t, m, n, ŋ/ nwere ike ịpụta dị ka [tj, mj, nj, ŋj] n'ihu ụdaume ihu.
• /z, x/ na-apụta naanị n'ihi okwu ndị sitere na Arabic.
• [ʔ] abụghị ụda ụda, a na-anụkwa ya n'ihu ụdaume mmalite okwu.
• Ụda /p, ɥ, v/ na-apụta naanị na ọnọdụ mmalite okwu.

Ndị na-emekọrịta ihe

Asụsụ Masalit nwere okwu abụọ:

* "Arọ" Masalit, nke ndị nọ n'ọkwa dị elu na ndị nọ n'ime ime obodo na-asụ, nwere ụtọ ụtọ asụsụ agglutinative gbagwojuru anya.

* "Mfe" Masalit, nke a na-asụ karịsịa n'ụlọ na n'ahịa, na-enwe usoro nchịkọta ụtọ dịtụ mfe yana ọtụtụ ego sitere na Sudanese Arabic, asụsụ mpaghara na asụsụ agụmakwụkwọ.

Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

• Abdo (November 2013). Contrastive analysis between Masalit and English language. Department of Linguistics. University of Khartoum. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
• Edgar (January 1990). "Masalit stories". African Languages and Cultures 3 (2): 127–148. DOI:10.1080/09544169008717716. 
• Jakobi (1991). "Edgar, John: A Masalit Grammar. With Notes on Other Languages of Darfur and Wadai. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1989. 121 pp., map, tab., fig. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, 3) Preis: DM 59-" (in de). Anthropos 86 (4–6): 599–601. 

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