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Nilo-Saharan

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)

Morphological Stratification in Dinka: On the Alternations of Voice Quality, Vowel Length and Tone in the Morphology of Transitive Verbal Roots in a Monosyllabic Language (Andersen, 1995)

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)

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