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Alumu is a Plateau language spoken by approximately 7,000 people in Nassarawa State, Nigeria. It has lost the nominal affix system characteristic of the Niger–Congo family.
| Alumu-Tesu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Nassarawa State |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1999)[1] |
| Dialects |
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aab |
| Glottolog | alum1246 |
Two varieties, Alumu and Tesu, differ only in intonation.[1] Information for Alumu and Tesu is listed from Blench (2004).[2]
Alumu (or Arum), with 4,000 speakers, is spoken in the settlements of Arum-Kado (main settlement), Arum-Tsabo, Arum-Sarki, Arum-Tumara, Arum-Chugbu, Arum-Kurmi (Gbira), and Arum-Chine.
Tesu (Təsu) (Hausa: Chessu[3]), with just under 2,000 speakers, is spoken in the two villages of Chessu Sarki and Chessu Madaki, which are about one kilometre apart from each other on the Wamba - Fadan Karshi road.
Akpondu is also closely related (also Babur, Nisam and Nigbo) but moribund or extinct, and its classification as a separate language or as a shifting dialect or sociological group of related dialects is not clear.[4]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labialized palatal |
Velar | Labialized velar |
Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ | k ɡ | kp ɡb | ||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ ʒ | x | h | ||
| Approximant | l | j | ɥ | w | |||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Trill | r |
It is unclear whether or not vowel nasality is phonemic in Alumu.[7]
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