Sumo languages

Sumo
Sumu
Native to Nicaragua, Honduras
Region Huaspuc River and its tributaries
Ethnicity Sumo people
Native speakers
9,000 (1997–2009)[1]
Misumalpan
  • Sumalpan

    • Sumo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 suminclusive code
Individual codes:
yan  Mayangna
ulw  Ulwa
Glottolog sumu1234[2]

Sumo (also known as Sumu) is the collective name for a group of Misumalpan languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classify the Sumu languages into a northern Mayangna, composed of the Twahka and Panamahka dialects, and southern Ulwa. Sumu specialist Ken Hale considers the differences between Ulwa and Mayangna in both vocabulary and morphology to be so considerable that he prefers to speak of Ulwa as a language distinct from the northern Sumu varieties.

Bibliography

References

  1. Sumo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mayangna at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ulwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sumuic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.



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