Tocho language
Tocho is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is spoken by approximately 2,700 people in the following villages: Igije, Imanjela, Thodero, Thoge, Tobaredeng, Tocho Goos, Tocho Saraf Jamus, Toderum, Togero, Togiding, Toriya, Torobang, Tothokrek and Turu.
Grammar
Phonology
Following is presented the list of Tocho consonant phonemes according to Akaki and Norton. In Tocho, plosives and nasals can be pronounced in all five places, but nasals are missing a dental representative. Compared to older data, the flap is mostly merging with the trill, but one can also argue that the newer data was collected in Khartoum, where Sudanese Arabic is the official language. So the merging can not be confirmed yet and has to be verificated with data in the villages where Tocho is spoken.
The Tocho language uses different prefixes to differentiate the numerus of nouns, sorted by noun classes with individual prefix-pairs. Those prefix-pairs consist of mostly all consonant phonemes and the option of none prefix. In most of the classes only the first consonant changes, but in some the difference between singular and plural is also indicated through a change in some of the first vowels, as for example /ʊ ~ ə/ and /a ~ ə/.