Welcome to the Nilo-Saharan language family page! Here you will find useful information regarding many of the Nilo-Saharan Languages.
Berta
Berta
A Sociolinguistic Survey of Six Berta Speech Varieties in Ethiopia (Bremer, 2016)
Kunama
Kunama
Marking of Syntactic Relations in Kunama (Abadi, 2012)
Observations on Kunama Tone (Connell and Hayward and Ashkaba, 2000)
Saharan
Converbs in an African Perspective (Amha and Dimmendaal, 2006)
Kanuri
A Dictionary of Manga, a Kanuri Language of Eastern Niger and NE Nigeria (Jarrett, 2007)
Encoding Focus in Kanuri Verbal Morphology: Predication Focus and the” Kanuri Focus Shift” (Wolff and Löhr, 2006)
The Kanuri Associative Postposition: a Case for Subordination (Hutchison, 1980)
Tebu (Daza and Teda)
A Grammar of Dazaga (Walters, 2016)
Zaghawa (Beria)
Focus in an Active/Agentive Alignment System: the Case of Beria (Saharan) (Jakobi, 2006)
Kanembu
In Search of the Saharan Inflectional Verbal Paradigms in Old Kanembu (Bondarev, 2005)
Songhay
Tadaksahak
Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak (Christiansen and Levinsohn, 2003)
A Grammar of Tadaksahak a Northern Songhay Language of Mali (Christiansen-Bolli, 2010)
Tagdal
Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphology in Tagdal: A Mixed Language (Benítez-Torres, 2009)
Tasawaq
The Borrowing of Aspects as Lexical Tone Classes: y-Initial Tuareg Verbs in Tasawaq (Northern Songhay) (Kossmann, 2007)
Pharyngealization and the Vowel System of Tasawaq (Northern Songhay) (Kossmann, 2013)
A Tasawaq (Northern Songhay, Niger) Text with Grammatical Notes (Kossmann, 2015)
Humburi Senni
Grammar of Humburi Senni (Songhay of Hombori, Mali) (Heath, 2014)
Zarma
Comitative-based Causative Constructions in Zarma (Laoualy Abdoulaye and Buba, 2015)
Kuliak
Nyangia (Nyang’i)
Grammatical Contraction in Nyang’i: A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Beer, 2017)
Ik (Teuso)
Ik Language Assessment Report (Wiedemann and Nannyombi, 2007)
A Grammar of Ik (Icé-tód): Northeast Uganda’s Last Thriving Kuliak Language (Schrock, 2014)
Maban
Converbs in an African Perspective (Amha and Dimmendaal, 2006)
Masalit (Masarak)
Modality and Future Reference in Masalit (Leffel, 2012)
QP1: Focus Constructions in Masalit (Leffel, 2011)
Allomorphy in Masarak’s Second Person (Brillman ,2009)
Mimi of Nachtigal
On Mimi (Starostin, 2011)
Fur
Fur
An Examination of the Tone System of Fur and it’s Function in Grammar (Noel, 2008)
Central Sudanic
Reflexes of a Labiovelar Series in Central Sudanic (Boyeldieu, 2006)
Lugbara
Tone Splitting and Vowel Quality: Evidence from Lugbara (Andersen, 1986)
Ngambay
A Brief Grammatical Sketch of Ngambay (Ndjerareou and Melick and Moeller, 2010)
Information Structure in Sara-Bagirmi (Jacob, 2017)
Kadu
Comparative Kadu Wordlists (Schadeberg, 1994)
Keiga (Deiga)
The Kayigang [= Keiga, Deiga] Language of the Nuba Hills, Sudan (Blench, 2005)
A Grammatical Sketch of Deiga (Reh, 1994)
Kadugli
The Classification of the Kadugli Language Group (Schadeberg, 1981)
The Noun Phrase in the Miri Language, Nuba Mountains (Mohamed, 2013)
Krongo
An Implicational Map of Parts of Speech (Hengeveld & Lier, 2010)
Eastern Sudanic
Marked Nominative Systems in Eastern Sudanic and their Historical Origin (Dimmendaal, 2014)
Dholuo
Dholuo Grammar for Beginners (Onyoyo, 2001)
Phonological Nativization of Dholuo Loanwords (Owino, 2013)
Is there a Passive in Dholuo? (Ochola, 1999)
Dinka
Modern Developments in the Dinka Language (Idris, 2004)
Ablaut in Dinka Nouns: A Preliminary Study (Kenstowicz, 2014)
Koman
Uduk (T’wampa)
Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morphosyntax (Killian, 2015)
Complex Verbal Predicates in Uduk (Killian, 2015)
Notes on the Morphosyntax of Uduk (Killian and Hammarström, 2009)
Kwama (Gwama)
Gwama, a Little-Known Endangered Language of Ethiopia: A Sketch of its Grammar and Lexicon (Leyew, 2005)
Notes on Gwama Grammar (Kievit and Robertson, 2012)
Documentation and Description of Tense, Aspect and Mood in Gwama (Amare, 2013)
Komo
A Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Northern Mao, Kwama, and Komo Speech Varieties of Western Ethiopia (Davis and Mohammed and Jordan, 2011)
The Mao and Komo Languages in the Begi–Tongo Area in Western Ethiopia: Classification, Designations, Distribution (Küspert, 2015)
Gumuz
Gumuz
A Grammar of Northern and Southern Gumuz (Ahland, 2012)
Noun Incorporation and Predicate Classifiers in Gumuz (Ahland, 2010)
Chabu (Shabo, Mikeyir)
Chabu
Documentation and Grammatical Description of Chabu (Kibebe, 2015)
Sociolinguistic Survey of the Shabo of Ethiopia (Jordan and Mohammed and Netzley, 2015)
