East Sudan languages

Distribution area of ​​the East Sudan languages

The East Sudanese languages are an important branch of the Nilo-Saharan languages . They are named after the large Sudan landscape .

Bender (2000) breaks them down as follows:

• Languages ​​that have retained the 1st person singular pronoun ( * aka ):
  • Nubian languages
  • Tama languages
  • Nyima languages
  • Nera
• Languages ​​that have renewed the first person singular pronoun ( * ani ):
  • Nilotic languages
  • Surmic languages
  • Daju languages
  • Jebel or East Jebel languages
  • Temein languages

East Sahelian

The corresponding grouping in Ehret (2001, p. 88 and p. 70 f.) Is called East Sahelian . It differs from Bender's structure mainly in that Ehret includes the individual Berta language and the Rub / Kuliak languages:

• Astaborian ( after an old name for the Atbara River ):
  • Nara ("Barea")
  • West Astaborian
    • Nubian
    • Tama
• Kir-Abbaiisch ( Kir is a name for the White Nile , Abbai a name for the Blue Nile ):
  • Jebel
    • West Jebel
    • Bertha
  • Kir
    • Nuba mountains
      • Temein, Jirru
      • Nyimang, Dinik
    • Daju
    • Surma-Nilotic table
      • Surmic
      • Nilotic
• Rub (Kuliak)

literature

• M. Lionel Bender: Nilo-Saharan . In: Bernd Heine u. Derek Nurse (Ed.): African Languages. An introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 43-73.
• Christopher Ehret: A historical-comparative reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan . Köppe, Cologne 2001.
• Ernst Kausen: The language families of the world. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 , pp. 174-198.

Web links

• Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: East Sudanic