Temein languages

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The Temein languages are a subgroup of the East Sudan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family , which consists of only two languages:

  • Temein [teq] (also: Ronge ) with around 10,000 speakers (as of 1984) and
  • Tese [keg] (also: Jirru ) with approx. 1,400 speakers (as of 1971)

Both are spoken in the Nuba Mountains in the Republic of Sudan .

They are among those languages within the branch ostsudanischen that the pronoun of the first person singular with an element n form:

  • Temein: nan
  • Tese: NAN

literature

  • Roland C. Stevenson: A survey of the phonetics and grammatical structure of the Nuba Mountain languages, with particular reference to Otoro, Katcha and Nyimaŋ . In: Africa and overseas . Vol. 41, 1957, pp. 183-190.

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