The Komuz languages are a proposed branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family which would include the Koman languages, the Gumuz languages and the Shabo language, all spoken in south-eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia. Nilo-Saharan specialists have vacillated on a genealogical relationship between the Koman and Gumuz languages, a relationship called Komuz. Greenberg (1963) had included Gumuz in the Koman language family. Bender (1989, 1991) classified them together in a distant relationship he called Komuz, but by 1996 he had reversed himself, though he kept both groups in core Nilo-Saharan. Dimmendaal (2008) kept them together, though expressed doubts over whether they belonged in Nilo-Saharan, later referring to Gumuz as an isolate (2011). Ahland (2010, 2012), on the basis of new Gumuz data, resurrected the hypothesis. Blench (2010) independently came to the same conclusion and suggested that the Shabo language might be a third, outlying branch. The classification of Shabo is difficult because of a strong Koman influence on the language that is independent of any genealogical relationship between them. Schnoebelen (2009), moreover, sees Shabo as a likely isolate.
Koman and Gumuz are also grouped together in an automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013).[1] However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.
^Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013).
The Komuzlanguages are a proposed branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family which would include the Koman languages, the Gumuz languages and the Shabo...
The komuz or qomuz (Kyrgyz: комуз Kyrgyz pronunciation: [qoˈmuz], Azerbaijani: Qopuz, Turkish: Kopuz) is an ancient fretless string instrument used in...
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temir komuz (sometimes temir qomuz meaning 'iron komuz/qomuz', ooz komuz meaning 'mouth komuz', or gubuz) is a Kyrgyz jaw harp, while the komuz is a three-stringed...
explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
being Komuz (which he renames Koman). Ehret's subclassification of Nilo-Saharan (2001) Congo–Saharan languages Eastern Sudanic languages Mande languages Nilo-Saharan...
The Kwama mainly adhere to Islam and animist traditional beliefs. Komuzlanguages James, W. (1975). Sister-Exchange Marriage. Scientific American, 233(6)...
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suffix "-stan" (meaning "land of") in both respective native languages and most other languages. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras (c. 1000 and earlier)...
language, spoken in the South Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, along the Sudan border between Asosa and Gidami. An early record of this language...
is fretted. Scholars have noticed the similarity in name to the Kyrgyz komuz, but note the kumuz is perhaps more closely related to the other lutes of...
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origin and is related to the terms kobyz and komuz, thought to have been introduced into the Ukrainian language in the 13th century with the migration of...
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Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan', Cambridge Handbook of African...
traditional folk music. The Dombura shares certain characteristics with the komuz and dutar instruments, such as its long, thin neck and oblong body shape...
Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Kwama (Komo) people of Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. It is a member of the Koman languages. The language is also referred...
provide no details. Dance movements are incorporated in the performances of komuz players, kuuduldar jesters (Kyrgyz: куудулдар) and in some games. The reason...
lexicon. Afrika und Übersee 62: 38-69. Bender, M. Lionel. 1994. Comparative Komuz grammar. Afrika und Übersee 77: 31-54. Grottanelli, Vinigi, L. 1948. I Preniloti:...
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