CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Western: Daju: Western
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1222
LANGUAGE:Lagawa
LOCATION:N Sudan
POPULATION:80,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Western: Daju: Western
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1223
LANGUAGE:Nyalgulgule
LOCATION:Sudan
POPULATION:900
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Western: Daju: Western
CONSONANTS:
NOUNNUMBER:s p
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3mf 6
SYNTAX:SVO/SOV NA NG N-POSS
NUMBER:1224
LANGUAGE:Shilluk
LOCATION:SE Sudan
POPULATION:110,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
DICTIONARY:Heasty, J. A. 1937. English-Shilluk, Shilluk-English Dictionary. Dolieb Hill, Sudan: The American Mission.
GRAMMAR:
Westermann, Diedrich. 1912a. A Short Grammar of the Shilluk Language. Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. GD: Kohnen, B. 1933. Shilluk Grammar. Verona: Missioni Africane.
OTHERSOURC:Westermann, Diedrich. 1912b. THe Shilluk People: Their Language and Folklore. Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. [Reprinted 1971 by Negro Universities Press, Westport, Connecticut]
CONSONANTS:
p t k b d ɡ č ɡ̌ f θ ð ɣ m n̪ n ñ ŋ l r
STOPS:p b t d k ɡ
AFFRICATES:č ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f θ ð ɣ
NASALS:m n̪ n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:I ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:o ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all?
MODIFIEDVO:
i̤ e̤ ǝ̤ a̤ ṳ o̤ v̤̄ all?
DIPHTHONGS:ai au ɔi ei
SYLLABLE:Nˈ
TONES:hi mid lo
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3 + ref
PRONOUNS:
1 4ie 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1225
LANGUAGE:Anuak
ALTERNATEN:Päri
LOCATION:SW Ethiopia
POPULATION:56,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
GRAMMAR:Lusted, Marie. 1976. "Anywa," in NSLE, 495-512.
OTHERSOURC:
Ohman, Walter A. et al. 1976. "Three Other Ethiopian Languages," in LE. WALS
CONSONANTS:
ph th kh b d ɡ tθ č dð ɡ̌ m n̪ n ñ ŋ l ɾ
STOPS:ph b th d kh ɡ
AFFRICATES:tθ dð č ɡ̌
NASALS:m n̪ n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:ɾ
MODIFIEDCO:cʷ
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:i ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
MODIFIEDVO:
i̤ a̤ o̤ (breathy) ī̤ ɛ̤̄ ā̤ ō̤
SYLLABLE:(C)V(C)
TONES:hi lo
STRESS:on stem syllable
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3
PRONOUNS:
1 4ie 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:OVS/(SOV [in non-present tenses of the applicative aspect]) NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS N+A+D+Num
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1226
LANGUAGE:Anuak
DIALECT:Pari
LOCATION:SE Sudan
POPULATION:56,000 (8,000)
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
GRAMMAR:GD: Simeoni, Antonio. 1978. Päri: A Luo Language of Southern Sudan. Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana.
CONSONANTS:
p t k b d ɡ č θ ð m n̪ n ñ ŋ l r
STOPS:p b t d k ɡ
AFFRICATES:č
FRICATIVES:θ ð
NASALS:m n̪ n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:i I e e> ɛ
CENTRALVOW:ǝ a
BACKVOWELS:u ʋ o o< ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄
TONES:hi lo
NOUNNUMBER:s p
GENDER:m f
DEMONSTRAT:2
PRONOUNS:
1 4ie 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1227
LANGUAGE:Jur
LOCATION:SW Sudan
POPULATION:5,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1228
LANGUAGE:Thuri
LOCATION:Sudan
POPULATION:154,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1229
LANGUAGE:Bor1
LOCATION:SE Sudan
POPULATION:6,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
CONSONANTS:
p t̪ t c k b d̪ d ɟ ɡ ʁ m n̪ n ñ ŋ l r
STOPS:p b t̪ d̪ t d c ɟ k ɡ
FRICATIVES:ʁ
NASALS:m n̪ n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
NUMBER:1230
LANGUAGE:Maban
LOCATION:Sudan
POPULATION:20,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1231
LANGUAGE:Burun
LOCATION:Sudan
POPULATION:18,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Northern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1232
LANGUAGE:Labwor
LOCATION:Uganda
POPULATION:5,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1233
LANGUAGE:Lwo
LOCATION:Uganda
POPULATION:5,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1234
LANGUAGE:Adhola
LOCATION:Uganda
POPULATION:160,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:1235
LANGUAGE:Luo
LOCATION:SW Kenya
POPULATION:1.5 million
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
GRAMMAR:Gregersen, Edgar. 1961. Luo: A Grammar. New Haven: Yale Univ Press.
TEXTBOOKS:Stafford, R. L. 1967. An Elementary Luo Grammar. Nairobi: Oxford Univ Press.
OTHERSOURC:LA
CONSONANTS:
p t k (ʔ) b d ɡ tθ č dð ɡ̌ f s h m n ñ ŋ l ɾ
STOPS:p b t d k ɡ (ʔ)
AFFRICATES:tθ dð č ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f s h
NASALS:m n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:ɾ
MODIFIEDCO:c̄
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:I ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:ʋ ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
MODIFIEDVO:
vowel harmony i̤ e̤ ɐ̤ ṳ o̤ v̤̄ all ?
TONES:hi-ris lo-fall downstep
STRESS:phonemic
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3 + ref
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1236
LANGUAGE:Alur
LOCATION:NW Uganda
POPULATION:200,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
DICTIONARY:
Vanneste, M. 1940. Woordenboek van de Alur-taal. Mahagi, Zaire. Ukoko, Joseph, Jan Knappert and Marcel van Spaandonck. 1964. Essai de dictionnaire dho alur. Ghent: Univ of Ghent.
GRAMMAR:GD: Ringe, P. C. n.d. A Simple Alur Grammar and Alur-English-Alur Vocabularies. Kampala: Eagle Language Studies.
OTHERSOURC:
Knappert, J. 1963. "The Verb in Dhó-Álúr," JAL 2, 101-27. LA
CONSONANTS:
p t̪ t k (kp) (ʔ) b ɓ d̪ d ɗ ɡ (ɡɓ) č ɡ̌ f s h v z m n ñ ŋ l r
STOPS:p b ɓ t̪ d̪ t d ɗ k ɡ (kp) (ɡɓ) (ʔ)
AFFRICATES:č ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f v s z h
NASALS:m n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
MODIFIEDCO:c̄
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:i e
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
MODIFIEDVO:
vowel harmony Ḭ ɛ̰ ʋ̰ ɔ̰ (creaky)
SYLLABLE:Nˈ lˈ rˈ
TONES:hi lo downstep
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3 + ref
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3 6 + indef
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1237
LANGUAGE:Lango
LOCATION:N Uganda (Lango)
POPULATION:560,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
OTHERSOURC:LA
CONSONANTS:
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:I ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:ʋ ɔ
MODIFIEDVO: i̤ e̤ ɐ̤ ṳ o̤
TONES:hi low fall downstep
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3 + ref
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1238
LANGUAGE:Acholi
ALTERNATEN:Akoli
LOCATION:N Uganda
POPULATION:440,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Luo: Southern
DICTIONARY:
Savage, G. A. R. 1955. A Short Acoli-English and English-Acoli Vocabulary. Kampala: The Eagle Press. Malandra, Alfred. 1957. English-Lwoo Dictionary. Verona: Nigrizia.
GRAMMAR:
GD: Crazzolara, J. P. 1955. A Study of the Acooli Language. London: Oxford Univ Press. Malandra, Alfred. 1955. A New Acholi Grammar. Kamapala: The Eagle Press.
TEXTBOOKS:Savage, G. A. R. 1956. The Essentials of Lwo (Acoli). Kampala: East African Literature Bureau.
OTHERSOURC:LA
CONSONANTS:
p t k ʔ b d (ḍ) ɡ pf tr č bv ɡ̌ m n ñ ŋ l r
STOPS:p b t d (ḍ) k ɡ ʔ
AFFRICATES:pf bv tr č ɡ̌
NASALS:m n ñ ŋ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
MODIFIEDCO:c̄
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:I ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:ʋ ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all?
MODIFIEDVO: i̤ e̤ ɐ̤ ṳ o̤
DIPHTHONGS:diphthongs
TONES:hi lo downstep
NOUNNUMBER:s (p) (a few plurals for kinship terms)
DEMONSTRAT:3 + ref
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3 6
SYNTAX:SVO NA NG ND N-NUM N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1239
LANGUAGE:Nuer
DIALECT:Western
LOCATION:SE Sudan
POPULATION:350,000
CLASSIFICA:Nilo-Saharan: East Sudanic: Nilotic: Western: Dinka-Nuer