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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to ...
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- ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.
- Proposed language family
and plural forms in Nilo-Saharan languages, but lack the plethora of forms that is commonly found with nouns. The only modifiers that may manifest the same kind of number inflection as nouns in Nilo-Saharan are adjectives. Number marking of nouns in Aiki (Runga), a member of the Maban group spoken in Chad, is shown in table 4.
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Oct 26, 2020 · Number-based noun classification. Nilo-Saharan languages are well-known for their complicated system of nominal number marking, which features a variety of singulative and plural affixes (Dimmendaal 2000). Even though these systems have received some attention in the typological literature, there has been limited theoretical work on their ...
Jan 1, 2000 · A more specific peculiarity of the noun morphology is that it involves the 'tripartite' number marking system that is widespread throughout the Nilo-Sarahan languages (Dimmendaal 2000).The ...
- Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
3 Lund online workshop on gender, noun class and classifier systems 12/3/2021 2 Niger-Congo gender and the "noun class" concept 2.1 Agreement vs. nominal form classes + philological Niger-Congo "noun class" concept conflates agreement and nominal form class, which hampers description, analysis, reconstruction, and typological appreciation of
This family formed the core of the Nilo-Saharan phylum as postulated by Greenberg in his The Languages of Africa, where a number of groups were added which had been treated as isolated units in his earlier classificatory work: Songhay, Eastern Saharan (now called Saharan), Maban and Mimi, Nyangian (now called Kuliak or Rub), Temainian ...
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. Nilo-Saharan languages - African, Diverse, Endangered: The considerable typological diversity that characterizes the Nilo-Saharan languages corresponds to their wide geographic spread. Structural properties—for example, with respect to sound systems and word order—often are shared with unrelated neighbouring language ...
