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Tiv language

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Dialects
History and classification
Phonology
Tone
Morphology
See also
References
External links
Religious materials

{{Infobox language
| name = Tiv
| region = Southeast Nigeria
| speakers = 4 million
| date = 1991
| ref = ^[1]
| familycolor = Niger-Congo
| fam2 = Atlantic–Congo
| fam3 = Benue–Congo
| fam4 = Southern Bantoid
| fam5 = Tivoid
| fam6 = Central A
| iso2 = tiv
| iso3 = tiv
| glotto = tivv1240
| glottorefname = Tiv
}}

Tiv is a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Nigeria, with some speakers in Cameroon. It had 4 million speakers in 2015. Most Tiv speakers are found in Benue State in Nigeria. The language is also widely spoken in the Nigerian states of Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa and Cross River as well as the FCT Abuja. It is by far the largest of the Tivoid languages, a group of languages belonging to the Southern Bantoid branch of Benue–Congo.

Dialects

Tiv has no dialects. Tiv speakers can understand each other across their territory. However, accents (ham) exist.^[2]

The accents of Tiv are as follows:

Utisha, spoken in the southeast, noted for its exaggerated palatalisation of vowels;
Shitire, spoken by most Tiv east of the Katsina Ala River, apparently slower sounding than the other Tiv accents and slurs vowels into their neighbouring consonant;
Iharev, which gives an exaggerated roll to the phoneme {{IPA|[r]}}~{{IPA|[l]}}
Kparev, spoken in the centre and south-centre;
- Kunev, a sub-accent of Kparev, noted for its preference for {{IPA|[d͡ʒ]}} sounds where other Kparev use {{IPA|[d͡z]}}.^[2]

Vocabulary, particularly plant and tool names, changes from one part of Tiv territory to the other.^[2]

History and classification

The first reference to the Tiv language (dzwa Tiv) was made by Koelle (1854) from liberated slaves from Sierra Leone. Johnston (1919) classified it as a peculiar language among the Semi-Bantu languages, and Talbot (1926) concurred. Abraham (1933), who has made the most complete linguistic study of Tiv, classifies it as Bantu, stating that its vocabulary is more similar to the East African Nyanza group of Bantu languages than to Ekoi or other neighbouring languages. Malherbe (1933) agrees with Abraham that Tiv is essentially Bantu.^[2]

All material on Tiv seems to point to a recent expansion, perhaps as late as the 18th century.^[3]

Phonology

Tone

Tiv has three main tones (five if rising and falling are counted as separate tones instead of composites of existing tones). They are most importantly used in inflection.^[2]

Morphology

Tiv has nine noun classes.^[2]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tiv|title=Tiv|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-10-06|language=en}}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=McgNDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Tiv of Central Nigeria: Western Africa|last=Bohannan|first=Laura|last2=Bohannan|first2=Paul|date=2017-02-03|publisher=Routledge|year=|isbn=9781315295794|location=|pages=|language=en|chapter=Language}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/Tivoid/General/Tivoid%20comparative.pdf|title=The Tivoid languages: overview and comparative wordlist|last=Blench|first=Roger|date=June 2016|website=|page=16|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}

R.C.Abraham, A Dictionary of the Tiv Language, Government of Nigeria 1940, republished by Gregg Press Ltd., Farnborough, Hants., England 1968. {{ISBN|0576116157}}

External links

More info on Tiv
Ate-u-Tiv Social Network
PanAfrican L10n page on Tiv

Religious materials

the bible in the tiv language
gospel
jesus film in tiv{{languages of Nigeria}}

2 : Languages of Nigeria|Tivoid languages

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