Mwaghavul (also known as Sura) is an
Afro-Asiatic
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language spoken in
Plateau State
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in
central Nigeria and predominantly in
Mangu
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Places
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* Mangu, Estonia, a village
* Mangu, Nigeria, a Local Government Area
* Mangu Farm, a settlement in Kenya
* Mangu station, a railway station in Seoul
* Mangu-dong, a dong (neighborhood) of ...
LGA
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.
Mwaghavul's dialects include Takas.
The
Mupun people is a related ethnic group.
Mwaghavul has one of the most elaborate systems of
logophoricity
Logophoricity is a phenomenon of Binding (linguistics), binding relation that may employ a morphologically different set of anaphoric forms, in the context where the referent is an entity whose speech, thoughts, or feelings are being reported. T ...
known in any language.
Phonology
Mwaghavul has 6 vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ, o, u/.
References
Further reading
* Roger Blench
''Mwaghavul - English dictionary'' unpublished.
* Zygmunt Frajzyngier. 1993. ''A Grammar of Mupun''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
External links
- Mwaghavul webpage at rogerblench.info
Languages of Nigeria
West Chadic languages
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