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Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.

Ronge is an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people are ɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔ and the language lɔ́ŋɔ na rɔŋɛ; Dimmendaal has ɔ́ràntɛ̀t for a person, kààkɪ́nɪ́ ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀ for the people, and ŋɔ́nɔ́t ná ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ for the language.

Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p	t̪	t		k
Plosive	voiced	b	d̪	d	ɟ	g
Nasal		m	n̪	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative				s
Rhotic				r
Approximant		w		l	j

/p/ may have allophones of [ɸ, f] when in word-initial position.
/s/ may have an allophone of [ʃ] in word-medial intervocalic positions.
The sequence /nt/ can have an allophone of [ɽ] in intervocalic positions.^[2]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

References

^ Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (1966). The Temein Group. In Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa (Handbook of African Languages), 2nd edn.: London: Oxford University Press. pp. 324–334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

Temein language (Roger Blench 2007)

External links

Temein basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

[e18-1] Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Tucker, Archibald N.; Bryan, Margaret A. (1966). The Temein Group. In Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa (Handbook of African Languages), 2nd edn.: London: Oxford University Press. pp. 324–334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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