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The Cori (Chori) language is a minor Plateau language spoken in a single village in Kaduna State in Nigeria. Cori is known
for having six distinct levels of tone, too many to transcribe using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which allows five.
However, there are only three underlying tones: 1 (top), 4 (mid), and 6 (bottom), which are all that need to be written for
literacy. Most cases of Tone 2 (high) are a result of tone sandhi, with 4 becoming 2 before 1. Tones 3 (mid-high) and 5 (low)
can be analyzed as contour tones, with underlying /1͡6/ realized as [3 3] and /2͡6/ realized as [5 5]. In order to transcribe
the surface tones without numerals (which are ambiguous), an extra diacritic is needed, as is common for four-level languages
in Central America: 1 [ő ő] (top) 2 [ó ó] (high) 3 [o̍ o̍] (mid-high) 4 [ō ō] (mid) 5 [ò ò] (low) 6 [ȍ ȍ] (bottom) |
Names (more)[de] Chori[en] Cori language [hr] Cori jezik |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : cryLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cryhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:cry More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: cryFreebase ISO 639-3 : cry GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |