Kadu languages
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| Kadu | |
|---|---|
| Tumtum Kadugli–Krongo | |
| Geographic distribution | Nuba Mountains, Sudan |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | kadu1256[1] |
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 but since Thilo Schadeberg (1981) widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. However, there is little evidence for either classification, and a conservative classification would treat the Kadu languages as an independent family.[2]
There are three branches:
References[edit]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kadugli–Krongo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Gerrit Dimmendaal, 2008. "Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent", Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5:843ff.
- Thilo C. Schadeberg. 1981. "The classification of the Kadugli language group". Nilo-Saharan, ed. by T. C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender, pp. 291–305. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
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