Kadu languages
Not to be confused with Kadu language (Burma).
| Kadu | |
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Tumtum Kadugli–Krongo | |
| Geographic distribution: | Nuba Mountains, Sudan |
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| Glottolog: | kadu1256[1] |
The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family, once included in Kordofanian 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
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kadugli–Krongo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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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