Northern Eastern Sudanic languages

Short description: Language family

Northern Eastern Sudanic

Astaboran
(undemonstrated)
Geographic
distribution| Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Chad
Linguistic classification| Nilo-Saharan?

* Eastern Sudanic?
* Northern Eastern Sudanic

Proto-language| Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic
Subdivisions|

* Nubian
* Nara
* Taman
* Nyima
* Meroitic? †

Glottolog| None
Eastern Sudanic languages: Group k (Northern Eastern Sudanic languages) (orange) Group n (Southern Eastern Sudanic languages) (yellow)

The Northern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern k Sudanic, Ek Sudanic, NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed Eastern Sudanic family. They are characterised by having a /k/ in the first person singular pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an /n/. Nyima has yet to be conclusively linked to the other languages, and would appear to be the closest relative of Ek Sudanic rather than Ek Sudanic proper.

The most well-known language of this group is Nubian. According to Claude Rilly, the ancient Meroitic language appears on limited evidence to be closely related to the languages of this group.

A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic has also been proposed by Rilly (2010).[1]

## Contents

* 1 Internal classification
* 2 External relationships
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Internal classification

Rilly (2009:2)[2] provides the following internal structure for the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages.

* Northern East Sudanic
* Nyima: Nyimang, Afitti
* Taman: Tama, Mararit
* Nara-Nubian
* Nara
* Meroitic-Nubian
* Meroitic
* Nubian
* Western Nubian
* Birgid
* Midob, Kordofan Nubian
* Nile Nubian
* Old Dongolawi, Kenuzi, Dongolawi
* Old Nubian, Nobiin

## External relationships

Based on morphological evidence such as tripartite number marking on nominals, Roger Blench (2021) suggests that the Maban languages may be closely related.[3]

## See also

* List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)

## References

1. ↑ Rilly, Claude (2010) (in fr). Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 347–349. ISBN 978-9042922372.
2. ↑ Rilly, Claude (June 4–7, 2009). "From the Yellow Nile to the Blue Nile: The quest for water and the diffusion of Northern East Sudanic languages from the fourth to the first millennia BCE". ECAS 2009 (3rd European Conference on African Studies). Leipzig.
3. ↑ Blench, Roger. 2021. The Maban languages and their place within Nilo-Saharan.

* Bender, M. L. (2000). "Nilo-Saharan". in Heine, Bernd. African Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
* Starostin, George (2015). "The Eastern Sudanic hypothesis tested through lexicostatistics: current state of affairs". https://www.academia.edu/10615385.
* Starostin, George (2015) (in Russian). Jazyki Afriki. Opyt postrojenija leksikostatističeskoj klassifikacii. Tom II. Vostočnosudanskije jazyki. II: The Eastern Sudanic Languages. Moscow: Languages of Slavic culture. ISBN 9785457890718.

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Eastern Sudanic languages

Northern k languages

| Nubian|

* Birgid
* Hill Nubian
* Kenzi-Dongolawi
* Midob
* Nobiin
* Old Nubian

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Nara|

* Nara

Nyima|

* Ama
* Dinik

Taman|

* Sungor
* Tama

Southern n languages

| Surmic|

| North|

* Majang

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Southeast|

* Kwegu
* Meʼen
* Mursi
* Suri

Southwest|

* Didinga
* Kacipo-Balesi
* Murle
* Laarim
* Tennet

Eastern Jebel|

* Aka
* Gaam
* Kelo
* Molo

Temein|

* Doni
* Temein
* Tese

Daju|

| Eastern|

* Liguri
* Shatt

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Western|

* Beigo
* Daju Mongo
* Njalgulgule
* Nyala
* Sila

Nilotic languages

| Eastern Nilotic|

* Bari

| Teso–Turkana|

* Karimojong
* Teso
* Toposa
* Turkana

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Lotuko|

* Lango
* Lokoya
* Lopit
* Lotuko

Ongamo–Maa|

* Camus
* Maasai
* Ongamo
* Samburu

Western Nilotic|

| Burun|

* North Burun
* South Burun

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Dinka–Nuer|

* Dinka
* Nuer
* Reel

Luo languages|

* Anuak
* Belanda Bor
* Luwo
* Päri
* Shilluk
* Southern Luo
* Thuri

Southern Nilotic|

* Datooga
* Kalenjin
* Omotik

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