Chori
| Chori | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Kaduna ( Nigeria ) | |
| speaker | 1,000 (2004) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
cry |
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The Chori or Cori language is an endangered platoid language spoken in a single village in the state of Kaduna , Nigeria . Chori forms with the closely related languages Kagoma [kdm], Schamang [xsh], Hyam [jab] and Zhire [zhi] the subgroup of the Hyamic languages.
The speakers of the chorus are increasingly switching to English.
Chori is known for having six different pitches . There are three basic tones in total: 1 ( top ), 4 ( middle ) and 6 ( bottom ). Most cases of tone 2 ( high ) are a result of the tone sandhi : 4 becomes 2 before 1. The tones 3 ( medium high ) and 5 ( low ) can be analyzed as contour tones, since the actual / 1͡6 / realizes as [3] becomes and / 2͡6 / as [5] .
See also
literature
- Ivan Dihoff: Aspects of the tonal structure of Chori. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin 1976.