Lafofa languages
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| Lafofa | |
|---|---|
| Kidie Lafofa | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Lafofa |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2023)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | laf |
| Glottolog | lafo1243 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| File:Lang Status 40-SE.svg Lafofa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Lafofa, also Tegem–Amira, is a dialect cluster spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.
Greenberg (1950) classified Lafofa as one of the Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, but without much evidence. More recently this position has been abandoned, and Lafofa is left unclassified within Niger–Congo. Norton (2016) tentatively finds Lafofa to be closest to the Ijoid languages.[2] It is considered a language isolate by Glottolog.
Unlike the neighbouring Talodi–Heiban languages which have SVO word order, the Lafofa languages have SOV word order.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Lafofa word lists (Wiktionary)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lafofa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
- ^ Russell Norton, 'Lafofa: a distant Ijoid-related language'. CLAN 2016
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