Päri language

Päri
Lokoro
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Blue Nile State
Ethnicity	Pari people
Native speakers	(28,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Western Nilotic Luo Northern Jur[2] Päri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lkr
Glottolog	pari1256[3]

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,^[4] which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).^[5][6]

References

1. Päri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Päri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity
5. G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46
6. C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press