Southern Eastern Sudanic languages
| Southern Eastern Sudanic | |
|---|---|
| Kir-Abbaian | |
| (undemonstrated) | |
| Geographic distribution | Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
The Southern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern n Sudanic, En Sudanic or Kir-Abbaian[1] languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).
The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the
Maasai
.
Southern Eastern Sudanic roots
Bender (1996) offers fifteen possible En Sudanic innovations.[2]
| English | Proto-En-Sudanic |
Surmic
|
Eastern Jebel
|
Temein | Daju | Nilotic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fire | *ma(a)(tt) | Majang maaɗ |
Eastern Jebel maʔa, mɔɔ |
--- | Daju *maas |
Nilotic *mat, *mac |
| neck | *ŋOr- | Majang ŋool |
Eastern Jebel ŋal(g) |
Temein ŋalo |
Daju *ŋaas- |
Nilotic *ŋut |
| white-yellow | *pVr | Murle fɔɔr |
Gaam bɔɔr |
Temein fʊr |
---- | Dinka-Nuer b(i)or |
| steal | *(a)gOl | Majang agal |
Gaam gəəɬ |
Temein proper agul |
Logorik eguxo |
Nilotic *kuOl |
References
- ^ History and the Testimony of Language. p. 160.
- ^ Bender, M. L. (1996). "Genetic sub-grouping of East Sudanic". Afrikanische Arbeitspapiere. 45: 139–150.
- Bender, M. L. (2000). "Nilo-Saharan". In Heine, Bernd; Nurse, Derek (eds.). African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.