Language group of Sudan
| Katloid |
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| Katla-Tima |
Geographic
distribution | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
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| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
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| Glottolog | katl1246 |
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The Katla languages are two to three closely related languages that form a small language family in the Nuba Hills of Sudan. Part of an erstwhile Kordofanian proposal, they are of uncertain position within the hypothetical Niger–Congo family. They do not share the characteristic morphology of Niger–Congo, such as the noun-class system. Thus Roger Blench classifies them as a divergent branch of Niger–Congo outside the Atlantic–Congo core. A similar situation holds for another Kordofanian family, Rashad; these are not closely related to Katla.
| Katla | | | Kaalak (Katla) | | | | | Domorik (Lomorik, Tima) | | | |
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See also
- List of Proto-Katloid reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
- ^ Gerrit Dimmendaal (in press 2019) 'Reconstructing Katloid and deconstructing Kordofanian.' In Schneider-Blum et al. (eds.) Nuba Mountain Languages Studies 3. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne.
- Roger Blench. Unpublished. Kordofanian and Niger–Congo: new and revised lexical evidence.
- Roger Blench, 2011, Should Kordofanian be split up?, Nuba Hills Conference, Leiden
