Geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in parts of Sudan
Kordofanian
(geographic)
Ethnicity
Nuba
Geographic distribution
Nuba Mountains of Sudan
Native speakers
250,000–500,000[1]
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo?
Kordofanian
Subdivisions
Kadu (in Nilo-Saharan)
Katla–Rashad (outer Niger–Congo)
Talodi–Heiban (in Atlantic–Congo)
ISO 639-5
kdo
Glottolog
None
The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the South Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four groups are sometimes regarded as branches of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family, whereas Kadu is now widely seen as a branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan family.
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The Kordofanianlanguages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the South Kordofan region of Sudan: Talodi–Heiban...
(Bantu) in the map above). The Niger–Kordofanianlanguage family, joining Niger–Congo with the Kordofanianlanguages of south-central Sudan, was proposed...
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fall into four language families. Three of them—Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Kordofanian, and Nilo-Saharan—are represented in Sudan. Each is divided into groups...
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holds for another Kordofanian family, Katla; these are not closely related to Rashad. Unlike the neighbouring Talodi-Heiban languages which have SVO word...
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various languages not closely related to each other. Most of the Nuba people speak one of the many languages in the geographic Kordofanianlanguages group...
S2CID 133888593. Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"[1] Roger Blench, 2011...
in southern Sudan. They speak Tegali of the Kordofanianlanguages group, in the major Niger–Congo language family. They number several 80,000 people. Most...
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kingdoms, that such evidence begins to appear. Kordofanianlanguages; various Eastern Sudanic languages spoken in the Upper Blue Nile Valley (for example...
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The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family of the Kordofanian geographic grouping, once included in Niger–Congo...
Venda and Xhosa) and corresponds to the distribution of the Niger-Kordofanianlanguage family, possibly reflecting the spread of Bantu-speaking populations...
a hypothetical language phylum known as Niger-Congo, and along with the Kordofanianlanguages as a sub-group, a hypothetical language phylum known as...