Southern Eastern Sudanic languages
| Southern Eastern Sudanic | |
|---|---|
| (undemonstrated) | |
| Geographic distribution | Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
The Southern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern n Sudanic, En Sudanic languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).
The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic, which includes such languages as Maasai.
Southern Eastern Sudanic roots
[edit]Bender (1996) offers fifteen possible En Sudanic innovations.[1]
| English | Proto-En-Sudanic |
Surmic | Eastern Jebel | Temein | Daju | Nilotic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fire | *ma(a)(tt) | Majang maaɗ |
Eastern Jebel maʔa, mɔɔ |
--- | Daju *maas |
Nilotic *mat, *mac |
| neck | *ŋOr- | Majang ŋool |
Eastern Jebel ŋal(g) |
Temein ŋalo |
Daju *ŋaas- |
Nilotic *ŋut |
| white-yellow | *pVr | Murle fɔɔr |
Gaam bɔɔr |
Temein fʊr |
---- | Dinka-Nuer b(i)or |
| steal | *(a)gOl | Majang agal |
Gaam gəəɬ |
Temein proper agul |
Logorik eguxo |
Nilotic *kuOl |
References
[edit]- ^ M. L. Bender, 1996. Genetic sub-grouping of East Sudanic. — Afrikanische Arbeitspapiere 45, 1996, 139-150.
- M. L. Bender, 2000. "Nilo-Saharan". In Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, eds., African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.