Surmic languages

The surmischen languages ​​(also: Didinga - Surma, Didinga - Murle ) are a subgroup of the Nilo-Saharan language family branch of ostsudanischen and are spoken in the south of the Republic of Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia.

You are among those languages ​​within the ostsudanischen branch forming the pronoun of the first person singular with an element n, eg aɲe ( Chai).

The most important language of this group is Didinga with about 100,000 speakers in the Republic of Sudan.

Is named the group after the Suri, that is also Surma.

Structure

Dimmendaal divided the surmischen languages ​​as follows:

  • North: Majang [ mpe ]
  • South: Southwest: Baale ( Kacipo - Balesi ) [ koe ]
  • DNM Didinga [ did ] and Narim (also: Longarim ) [ loh ]
  • Murle [ mur ] and Tennet [ tex]
  • CTM: Chai, Tirma ( dialects of Suri [ suq ], also: Surma ) and Mursi
  • Me'en [ mym ]: the dialects Tishena and Bodi
  • YKM: Kwegu [ XWG ] and the dialects Yidinit and Muguji
Eastern Sudanic languages Mursi language
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