Northern Eastern Sudanic languages
| Northern Eastern Sudanic | |
|---|---|
| Astaboran | |
| (undemonstrated) | |
| Geographic distribution | Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Chad |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
|
| Proto-language | Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
The Northern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern k Sudanic, Ek Sudanic, NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed Eastern Sudanic family. They are characterised by having a /k/ in the first person singular pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an /n/. Nyima has yet to be conclusively linked to the other languages, and would appear to be the closest relative of Ek Sudanic rather than Ek Sudanic proper.
The most well-known language of this group is Nubian. According to Claude Rilly, the ancient Meroitic language appears on limited evidence to be closely related to the languages of this group.
A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic has also been proposed by Rilly (2010).[1]
Internal classification
[edit]Rilly (2009:2)[2] provides the following internal structure for the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages.
External relationships
[edit]Based on morphological evidence such as tripartite number marking on nominals, Roger Blench (2021) suggests that the Maban languages may be closely related.[3]
See also
[edit]
- List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
[edit]- ^ Rilly, Claude (2010). Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique (in French). Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 347–349. ISBN 978-9042922372.
- ^ Rilly, Claude (June 4–7, 2009). From the Yellow Nile to the Blue Nile: The quest for water and the diffusion of Northern East Sudanic languages from the fourth to the first millennia BCE. ECAS 2009 (3rd European Conference on African Studies). Leipzig.
{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Blench, Roger. 2021. The Maban languages and their place within Nilo-Saharan.
- Bender, M. L. (2000). "Nilo-Saharan". In Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek (eds.). African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
- Starostin, George (2015). "The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs". Draft 1.0.
- Starostin, George (2015). Jazyki Afriki. Opyt postrojenija leksikostatističeskoj klassifikacii. Tom II. Vostočnosudanskije jazyki Языки Африки. Опыт построения лексикостатистической классификации. Том II. Восточносуданские языки [The Languages of Africa. The experience of building a lexiostatistical classification.] (in Russian). Vol. II: The Eastern Sudanic Languages. Moscow: Languages of Slavic culture. ISBN 9785457890718.