Uduk, also known as Twʼampa (Tʼwampa), is a
Koman language spoken in
Sudan near the
border with Ethiopia. Nearly the entire population fled to a refugee camp in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
during the
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated ...
, but returned to Sudan once fighting stopped. The resurgence of hostilities in the Blue Nile province after 2011 once more resulted in the Uduk community to enter refugee camps in Ethiopia and South Sudan.
[Killian 2015, pp. 4f]
Phonology
Consonants
# Consonants in parentheses are allophones.
# Consonants in brackets are rare or marginal.
Vowels
References
* Don Killian (2015
"Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morphosyntax"Ph.D. thesis. University of Helsinki.
* Don Killian and Harald Hammarström (2010) "Notes on the morphosyntax of Uduk"
* Bender, M. L. 1983. Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon. Afrika und Übersee 66, 259–297.
{{Languages of Ethiopia
Languages of Ethiopia
Languages of Sudan
Koman languages