Surmic languages
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]
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South :
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Southwest :
- Baale (Kacipo-Balesi) [koe]
- DNM
- Didinga [did] and Narim (also: Longarim) [loh]
- Murle [mur] u. Tennet [tex]
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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
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Southwest :
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.