Temein languages
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.