Northern Eastern Sudanic languages

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Northern Eastern Sudanic
Astaboran
(undemonstrated)
Geographic
distribution
Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

The Northern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern k Sudanic, Ek Sudanic, NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed

n/. Nyima
has yet to be conclusively linked to the other languages, and would appear to be the closest relative of Ek Sudanic rather than Ek Sudanic proper.

The most well-known language of this group is

Nubian. According to Claude Rilly, the ancient Meroitic language
appears on limited evidence to be closely related to the languages of this group.

A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic has also been proposed by Rilly (2010).[1]

Internal classification

Rilly (2009:2)[2] provides the following internal structure for the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages.

  • Northern East Sudanic
    • Nyima: Nyimang, Afitti
    • Taman: Tama, Mararit
    • Nara-Nubian
      • Nara
      • Meroitic-Nubian
        • Meroitic
        • Nubian
          • Western Nubian
            • Birgid
            • Midob, Kordofan Nubian
          • Nile Nubian
            • Old Dongolawi, Kenuzi, Dongolawi
            • Old Nubian, Nobiin

External relationships

Based on morphological evidence such as tripartite number marking on nominals, Roger Blench (2021) suggests that the Maban languages may be closely related.[3]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Rilly, Claude (June 4–7, 2009). From the Yellow Nile to the Blue Nile: The quest for water and the diffusion of Northern East Sudanic languages from the fourth to the first millennia BCE. ECAS 2009 (3rd European Conference on African Studies). Leipzig.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ Blench, Roger. 2021. The Maban languages and their place within Nilo-Saharan.
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  • Starostin, George (2015). "The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs". Draft 1.0.
  • Starostin, George (2015). Jazyki Afriki. Opyt postrojenija leksikostatističeskoj klassifikacii. Tom II. Vostočnosudanskije jazyki Языки Африки. Опыт построения лексикостатистической классификации. Том II. Восточносуданские языки [The Languages of Africa. The experience of building a lexiostatistical classification.] (in Russian). Vol. II: The Eastern Sudanic Languages. Moscow: Languages of Slavic culture. .