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)
^Gerrit Dimmendaal (in press 2019) 'Reconstructing Katloid and deconstructing Kordofanian.' In Schneider-Blum et al. (eds.) Nuba Mountain Languages Studies 3. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne.
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...
can be reconstructed from the Heibanian, Talodian, Rashadian, Katloid, and Lafofa languages. His Proto-Kordofanian reconstructions are as follows: Starostin...
Tima is one of the two languages in the Katla language family. It is spoken by the Tima people in Central Sudan. All of the following examples are written...
cases Katla places the genitive after the subject, as in other Sudanese languages: ‚u gbalana‘ " the dog’s owner ". Usually this is avoided and put in between...
(eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp. 325–345. Gerrit Dimmendaal (in press 2019) 'Reconstructing Katloid and deconstructing...
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