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Atlantic-Congo (atla1278) > Volta-Congo (volt1241) > Benue-Congo (benu1247) > Bantoid (bant1294) > Southern Bantoid (sout3152) >...> North Rutara (nort3228)
Language is tonal
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Information source and comments on the tonal status of the language
"Ruruuli-Lunyala is a tonal language: tone is contrastive, i.e. it plays a role in distinguishing lexical items. A comprehensive study of the Ruruuli-Lunyala tone system is underway." (Namyalo et al. 2021: 15) Namyalo, Saudah, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Amos Atuhairwe, Zarina Molochieva, Ruth Mukama & Margaret Zellers. 2021. A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala. (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries, 5.) In Namyalo, Saudah and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Kiriggwajjo, Anatole and Atuhairwe, Amos and Molochieva, Zarina and Mukama, Ruth Gimbo and Zellers, Margaret (eds.) Berlin: Language Science Press. 796pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5548947.
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