Temne is a Niger-Kordofanian language (West Atlantic group) spoken
in central Sierra Leone (map).
There are approximately 1 million
speakers.
Temne contrasts stops in the dental/alveolar region. While dental
stops are typically laminal in the world's languages, in Temne they
are apical, with the alveolar stop being laminal. The laminal alveolar
is affricated.
For sonargrams of the two words below click here.
t̺or ("descend") |
t̻sor ("farms") |