Some Aspects of Dinka Noun System
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Some Aspects of Dinka Noun System investigates, as the name suggests, aspects of the noun system of the Dinka language. Dinka is a monosyllabic and tone language. It belongs to the Nilotic family of languages that includes Nuer and Shilluk. The book examines some aspects of Dinka phonology. Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies language sound. The second part of the book handles the definition of " breathiness" and its role in the language. Part three investigates the role of vowel's length and central vowels. According to Professor Job Malou, investigations show that breathiness ...
Some Aspects of Dinka Noun System investigates, as the name suggests, aspects of the noun system of the Dinka language. Dinka is a monosyllabic and tone language. It belongs to the Nilotic family of languages that includes Nuer and Shilluk. The book examines some aspects of Dinka phonology. Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies language sound. The second part of the book handles the definition of " breathiness" and its role in the language. Part three investigates the role of vowel's length and central vowels. According to Professor Job Malou, investigations show that breathiness in Dinka is distinctive and that there are 78 distinctive vowels. Linguists such as A. Trucker, Bryan and Welmers who have studied Western Nilotic Languages, pointed out the existence of seven vowel contrasts. However, Trucker and Bryan (1948), recognised the complicated nature of Dinka vowels system. They pointed out the existence of seven vowel contrasts. Welmers find Wilson's tentative analysis of the Dinka vowel system together with its morphological operating remarkable. The review discusses the presence of both "breathy" and non-breathy" voice in pronunciation of vowels, diphthongs and semi-vowels. Tone, vowel system and syllable are included in the discussion. Furthermore, compounding, wordformation, cattle name prefixes and reduplication are tackled at length in chapters four and five respectively. Reduplication is a repetition of all or some parts of a stem word that mostly forms abstract nouns. Investigations reveal that the Dinka nominal system involves many complicated rules. For that reason, the author recommends an in-depth study of all the Dinka dialects in order for researchers to draw out clear morphological rules governing the Dinka language. Deng Akol Juach was born in Piom de Awan Village. He received all his education in South Sudan and Sudan. In 2014 Deng Akol Juach crowned his academic achievements with an award of a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Sudan University of science and technology, Sudan. Dr Juach, who has been a lecturer for about ten years at the Faculty of Education (English Department) of the University Upper Nile, Malakal, is currently an Assistant Professor. This is his first publication.
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