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Sukur language

Sukur (Adikimmu Sukur, Gemasakun, Sakul, Sugur, Sakun) is a Biu–Mandara language of Madgali LGA, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

Phonology

  • /â±±/ is only found intervocalically in ideophones.
  • /ɬ/ is often pronounced [x] word-initially.
  • /tʃ dʒ/ are often lenited to [ʃ ʒ] in fast speech.
  • /k/ can vary to [x~kÊ·~w~g].
  • /a/ can be raised to either [e] or [o].
  • /ə/ is epenthetic. It is heard as [ə̥] if following an unvoiced consonant and if it does not bear any tone, and can also unpredictably be realized as [uÌ¥] in fast speech.

Sukur also has two tones; high and low.

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