Eastern Sudanic languages
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Ehret 2001 [1984]
Ehret, published in 2001 but circulating in manuscript form since at least 1984, calls the family "Eastern Sahelian", and idiosyncratically adds the Kuliak languages
and Berta
, which Bender assigns to higher-level branches of Nilo-Saharan, and reassigns Nyima
to the southern branch. No evidence has been published for any of these assignments, and they have not been picked up by other linguists. For example, (Blench 2007) calls the reassignment of Nyima to the Temein family "a classification which suggests the author has not seriously considered all the relevant data (none of which is referenced in the bibliography)".
Ehret, published in 2001 but circulating in manuscript form since at least 1984, calls the family "Eastern Sahelian", and idiosyncratically adds the Kuliak languages
Kuliak languages
-References:* Heine, Bernd The Kuliak Languages of Eastern Uganda. Nairobi: East African Publishing House.* Ehret, Christopher "The classification of Kuliak", in ed. Thilo Schadeberg & Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, September...
and Berta
Berta language
Berta, Wetawit, is spoken by the Berta in Sudan and Ethiopia. It is a language isolate which has been also included as branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. It has the typical word order subject–verb–object. It is a tonal language. It has significantly influenced some of the...
, which Bender assigns to higher-level branches of Nilo-Saharan, and reassigns Nyima
Nyima languages
The Nyima languages are a pair of languages of Sudan spoken by the Nyimang that are part of the Eastern Sudanic family of Nilo-Saharan languages.The languages are Ama and Dinik ....
to the southern branch. No evidence has been published for any of these assignments, and they have not been picked up by other linguists. For example, (Blench 2007) calls the reassignment of Nyima to the Temein family "a classification which suggests the author has not seriously considered all the relevant data (none of which is referenced in the bibliography)".
Sources
- Bender, M. Lionel. 2000. "Nilo-Saharan". In Bernd HeineBernd HeineBernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies.From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. His main focal points in research and teaching are African linguistics, language sociology, grammaticalization theory and language...
and Derek Nurse, eds., African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. - Bender, M. Lionel. 1981. "Some Nilo-Saharan isoglosses". ed. Thilo Schadeberg, M. L. Bender, Nilo-Saharan: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, Sept. 8-10, 1980. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
- Temein languages (Roger Blench 2007)
- Ehret, Christopher. 2001. A historical-comparative reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan. Köln: Rudiger Köppe.