Abon language

Abon
Abõ
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Ethnicity	Ba’ban
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Tivoid North Abon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	abo
Glottolog	abon1238

Abon (Abõ) is a Tivoid language of Nigeria.

Phonology

Consonant Chart of Abon Language

	Bilabial		Labiodental	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive	p	b		t	d		k
Nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
Trill
Fricative			f	s				ʁ	h
Approximant	w					j

Long Consonants Chart

Letter	"Short"	"Long"	Example
kk	/k/	/kk/	Velar Plosive
kp	/kp/	/kp/	Velar Bilabial Plosive
mm	/m/	/mm/	Bilabial Nasal
nn	/n/	/nn/	Alveolar Nasal
NN	/N/	/NN/	Alveolar Nasal
pp	/p/	/pp/	Bilabial Plosive
tt	/t/	/tt/	Alveolar Plosive

Vowel Chart of Abon Language

	Front			Central		Back
	short	long		short	long	short	long
High	/ɪ/	/iː/	/ii/	/ʉ/		/o/	/uː/	/uu/
Mid		/eː/	/ee/	/ə/		/ɔ/	/Λ/
Low	/a/	/aa/

[2]

References

1. Abon at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
2. "(PDF) A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-12-19.

Further reading

• Ekpenyong, Moses & Udoinyang, Mfon & Urua, Eno-Abasi. (2009). A Robust Language Processor for African Tone Language Systems. Georgian Electronic Scientific Journal: Computer Science and Telecommunications. 623.