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Kordofanian languages
There are some 15-20 Kordofanian languages spoken in southern Sudan. These are commonly divided into four major groupings (cfr Schadeberg 1989, Williamson & Blench 2000):
- Heiban cluster -- between 5 and 10 languages
- Talodi cluster -- some 5 languages
- Rashad (Tagoi-Tegali) cluster -- two dialect clusters
- Katla-Tima cluster -- two languages
A SELECTION OF PRINTED SOURCES
Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1981. Das Kordofanische. In: Die Sprachen Afrikas (ed. by Bernd Heine, Thilo C. Schadeberg & Ekkehard Wolff), p. 117-128. Helmut Buske Verlag.
Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1989. Kordofanian. In: The Niger-Congo languages (ed. by John Theodor Bendor-Samuel), p. 66-80. University Press of America, by arrangement with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL).
Williamson, Kay; Blench, Roger M. 2000. Niger-Congo. In: African languages: an introduction (ed. by Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse), p. 11-42. Cambridge University Press.
Herman Bell, 1998
The Nuba Mountains: who spoke what in 1976?. Sudanic Africa: text and sources archive (online), n. 1. Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bergen.
www.smi.uib.no/sa/tan/Nuba.html
Roger M. Blench, 2000
Kordofanian and Niger-Congo: an evaluation of the evidence (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1989
Kordofanian (PDF). From: The Niger-Congo languages. University Press of America.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8823
Robin Thelwall, Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1983
The linguistic settlement of the Nuba Mountains (PDF). From: Sprache und Geschichte in Africa, v. 5, p. 219-231.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8810
Roger M. Blench
Heiban nouns - from SIL files, Khartoum (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
Elizabeth Guest, 1997
Heiban noun classes (PDF).
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
Nicholas Quint, 2007
Benefactive and malefactive in the Koalib verbal system (PDF). Abstract of a paper presented at the workshop on the typology of benefactives and malefactives, University of Zurich, October 25-26, 2007.
www.unizh.ch/spw/benefact/Abstracts.html
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1981
Die Geschichte der Nominalklassen des Laru, Kordofanisch (PDF). From: Berliner afrikanistische Vorträge: XXI. deutscher Orientalistentage, Berlin, 24.-29. März 1980.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8804
Roger M. Blench
A dictionary of the Moro language of the Nuba Hills, Sudan (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
Thilo C. Schadeberg, Philip Elias, 1979
A description of the Orig language (Southern Kordofan), based on the notes of Fr. Carlo Muritori (PDF). Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, archief voor antropologie, n. 26.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8801
Wikipedia
The Tagoi language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagoi_language
