Lafofa languages
| Lafofa | |
|---|---|
| Kidie Lafofa | |
| Native to | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Lafofa |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2023)[1] |
| ? | |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | laf |
| Glottolog | lafo1243 |
| ELP | Lafofa |
 Lafofa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Lafofa, also Tegem–Amira, is a
dialect cluster spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira
varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.
Greenberg (1950) classified Lafofa as one of the
Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, but without much evidence. More recently this position has been abandoned, and Lafofa is left unclassified within Niger–Congo. Norton (2016) tentatively finds Lafofa to be closest to the Ijoid languages.[2]
It is considered a language isolate by Glottolog.
Unlike the neighbouring
SOV word order.[3]
See also
- Lafofa word lists (Wiktionary)
References
- ^ Lafofa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Russell Norton, 'Lafofa: a distant Ijoid-related language'. CLAN 2016
- S2CID 133888593.
- Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"[1]
- Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Tegem–Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger–Congo"[2]
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