Komuz languages
The Komuz languages (term contracted from Koma and Gumuz ) are a group of relatively little researched languages in Africa that are spoken on both sides of the Sudanese - Ethiopian border. They are placed in the hypothetical family of Nilo-Saharan languages . The Koma languages form a subgroup of the Komuz languages .
structure
- Gumuz [guk] (approx. 160,000 speakers)
- Coma languages:
According to Bender (2000), however, Gumuz and the coma languages do not form a genetic unit, although the same author had previously combined both.
literature
- Mary S. Beam et al. A. Elizabeth Cridland: Uduk-English dictionary . University of Khartoum, 1970.
- M. Lionel Bender: Gumuz: a sketch of grammar and lexicon . In: Africa and overseas . Volume 62, Issue 1, 1979, pp. 38-69.
- M. Lionel Bender: Proto-Koman phonology and lexicon . In: Africa and overseas . Volume 66, Issue 2, 1983, pp. 259-297.
- M. Lionel Bender: The Nilo-Saharan Languages. A comparative essay . LINCOM Europe, Munich 1996.
- M. Lionel Bender: Nilo-Saharan . In: Bernd Heine u. Derek Nurse (Ed.): African Languages. An introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 43-73.