Tera Language: Difference between revisions

From Testwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Description:</b> Tera is a Chadic language spoken in north-eastern Nigeria...)
 
(Redirecting to Tera Language (ttr))
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
#REDIRECT [[Tera Language (ttr)]]
<table valign=top>
  <tr>
    <td valign=top align=left width="50%">
    <table valign=top>
        <tr><td><b>Description:</b>
 
Tera is a Chadic language spoken in north-eastern Nigeria in the north and eastern parts of Gombe State and Borno State.
Vowel length contrasts are neutralized in monosyllabic words with no coda consonants.
All vowels but /a/ and /aː/ are more open in closed syllables. such as in [ɮɛp] ('to plait') and [xʊ́r] ('to cook soup'). /a/ and /aː/ is more open when following palatalized consonants.
Diphthongs, which have the same length as long vowels, consist of a non-high vowel and a high vowel:
Tera is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid and low tone. Tone is not indicated orthographically since no minimal trios exist; minimal pairs can be distinguished by context.
The first publication in Tera was Labar Mbarkandu nu Yohanna Bula Ki, a translation of the Gospel of John, which established an orthographic system. In 2004, this orthographic system was revised.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5756836 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Tera Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="8.361977" lon="12.627791" type="map">
7.621857, 6.974333, Nigeria
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
</td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
<table valign=top>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ttr_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ttr_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vernacular Text:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ttr_vertxt-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ttr_vertxt-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
</table>
 
</td></tr>
    </table>
    </td>
    <td valign=top align=right>
    <table valign=top>
      <tr><td><table>
 
<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/nigeria Nigeria]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>ttr</td></tr>
 
</table>
</td></tr>
      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Chadic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Biu-Mandara Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[A Biu-Mandara Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Chadic Biu-Mandara A A.1 A Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Western A1 Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Tera Language]]</b>
 
</td></tr>
    </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
 
__NOTOC__

Latest revision as of 20:39, 13 August 2009