Surmic languages

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The Surmic languages (also: Didinga-Surma , Didinga-Murle ) are a subgroup of the East Sudanese branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family and are spoken in the south of the Republic of Sudan and in the south-west of Ethiopia .

They are among those languages within the branch ostsudanischen that the pronoun of the first person singular with an element n form, eg. B. aɲe (Chai).

The most important language of this group is Didinga with around 100,000 speakers in the Republic of Sudan .

The group is named after the Suri , which is also called Surma .

structure

Dimmendaal divides the Surmic languages ​​as follows:

  • North : Majang [mpe]
  • South :
    • Southwest :
      • Baale (Kacipo-Balesi) [koe]
      • DNM
        • Didinga [did] and Narim (also: Longarim) [loh]
        • Murle [mur] u. Tennet [tex]
    • Southeast :
      • CTM: Chai, Tirma (dialects of: Suri [suq], also: Surma) u. Mursi
      • Me'en [mym]: the dialects Tishena u. Bodi
      • YKM: Kwegu [xwg] and the dialects Yidinit u. Muguji

literature

  • Gerrit J. Dimmendaal et al. Marco Last (Ed.): Surmic languages ​​and cultures . Köppe, Cologne 1998.
  • Thilo C. Schadeberg: The Nilosaharan languages . In: Bernd Heine et al. (Ed.): The languages ​​of Africa . Buske, Hamburg 1981, pp. 292-293.

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