Gaam

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Gaam (also: Ingassana / Ingessana / [Jebel] Tabi)

Spoken in

Sudan
speaker approx. 67,000 (as of 2000)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

tbi

Gaam (actually: kor-e-Gaam "language from home"; also: Ingassana / Ingessana , [Jebel] Tabi ) is a language spoken by about 67,000 people in the state of Blue Nile in the east of Sudan on the mountain Jebel Tabi spoken becomes.

Together with the more closely related languages Aka [soh], Kelo [xel] and Molo [zmo], which have very few speakers, it is assigned to the East Sudanese branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family as the "Eastern Jebel Group" .

Gaam one of those ostsudanischen languages that the pronoun of the first person singular with an element n form: ANE .

The basic word order of the Gaam is subject-verb-object .

literature

  • M. Lionel Bender et al. Agaar Ayre Malik: Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam dictionary. Carbondale (Illinois), Southern Illinois University 1980.
  • William J. Crewe: The phonological features of the Ingessana language. University of Khartoum 1975.
  • Edward E. Evans-Pritchard: Ethnographical Observations in Dar Fung. In: Sudan Notes and Records , Vol. 15/1, 1932, pp. 1-61.
  • Frank S. Lister et al. J. Lister: The Ingassana language: A preliminary investigation. In: Journal of Ethiopian Studies , Vol. 4/2, 1966, pp. 41-44.
  • Timothy M. Stirtz: A grammar of Gaahmg. A Nilo-Saharan language of Sudan. Dissertation Universiteit Leiden 2012. online
  • Sisto Verri: Il linguaggio degli Ingassana nell'Africa Orientale . In: Anthropos . Vol. 50, 1955, pp. 282-318. (in Italian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Lionel Bender: Nilo-Saharan . In: Bernd Heine u. Derek Nurse (Ed.): African Languages. An introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 47.
  2. ↑ Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: Sudan (map)