Kuliak languages

Information about Kuliak languages

The Kuliak languages (sometimes called Rub) - Ik, Soo, and Nyang'i - are spoken by small relict communities in the mountains of northeastern Uganda. They form a branch of Nilo-Saharan, probably within the Eastern Sudanic branch, although their exact place within the family is disputed. Significant influence from Cushitic languages, and more recently Nilotic languages, is observable in the vocabulary and phonology. Bernd Heine and Christopher Ehret have both proposed reconstructions of Proto-Kuliak. Soo and Nyang'i form a subgroup, Western Kuliak, as against Ik.

It has been suggested that Kuliak elements may be observable in Oropom, if it exists.

See also

References

  • Heine, Bernd (1976) The Kuliak Languages of Eastern Uganda. Nairobi: East African Publishing House.
  • Ehret, Christopher (1981) "The classification of Kuliak", in ed. Thilo Schadeberg & Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, September 8-10, 1980. Dordrecht: Foris.
  • Laughlin, C. D. (1975) "Lexicostatistics and the mystery of So ethnolinguistic relations" in Anthropological Linguistics 17:325-41.
  • Fleming, Harold C. (1982) "Kuliak external relations: step one" in Nilotic Studes (Proceedings of the international symposium on languages and history of the Nilotic Peoples, Cologne, January 4-6, 1982, Vol 2, 423-478.
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Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers (whence the term "Nilo-"), including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of Nile meet.
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The Eastern Sudanic languages form a family of languages spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania, usually considered a subfamily of Nilo-Saharan, following Joseph Greenberg.
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Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. They are spoken in the Horn of Africa. The most prominent language is Oromo with about 25 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia,
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Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, particularly associated with cattle-herding.
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Bernd Heine (born May 25, 1939 in Mohrungen, East Prussia, now Morąg, Poland) is a German linguist and specialist in African studies.

From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany.
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Christopher Ehret, Professor of African History at UCLA, is a major figure in African history and African historical linguistics, particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archaeological record.
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Oropom (or Oworopom, Oyoropom, Oropoi) is an almost certainly extinct African language, once spoken in northeastern Uganda and northwestern Kenya between the Turkwel River, Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon, by the Oropom ethnic group.
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IK or Ik may mean:
  • Indigenous Knowledge, a program run by the World Bank
  • Inupiak language (ISO 639 alpha-2)
  • Ik A Ugandan tribe
  • Ik River in Russia
  • 'Ik' is a Dutch word for I, as in : I just wet myself.

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  • Lionel Bender (linguist) is an American author and co-author of several books, publications and essays regarding African languages.

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