Lafofa languages
| Lafofa | |
|---|---|
| Tegem–Amira | |
| Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Lafofa |
Native speakers | (5,100 cited 1984)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
laf |
| Glottolog |
lafo1243[2] |
Lafofa, also Tegem, is a Niger–Congo dialect cluster spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.
Long considered one of the Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, Blench posits that the Lafofa languages should be considered a distinct branch of Niger–Congo pending further research. They share cognates with divergent Niger–Congo languages such as Ijo that are not found elsewhere in the Kordofanian languages.
References
- ↑ Lafofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lafofa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"
- Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Tegem–Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger–Congo"
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