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Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2007 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family.
Torben Andersen
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka [PDF]
Afrika und Übersee, 2023 Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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Investigating the voice quality dimension in Western Nilotic vowel harmony [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1984 It has been suggested at least since 1936 (Tucker, 2nd International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Cambridge) that the vowel harmony system in Western Nilotic languages includes a dimension of voice quality contrast. X-ray studies of Dho-Luo and Ateso have shown that there are generally differences in the superalaryngeal regions (e.g., in tongue ...
Ian Maddieson
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Multiple adnominal modification in Dinka
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, most adnominal modifiers follow the head noun. Before most of these modifiers, the head noun is in one of two construct states.
Torben Andersen
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Anne Storch, A Grammar of Luwo: An Anthropological Approach [PDF]
, 2023 Luwo is a Western Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan in and around the town of Wau by around 80,000 people. It belongs to the Lwoo branch of Western Nilotic. Only one grammar of the language, Santandrea (1946), existed hitherto. Very few more focused
Faust, Noam
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Datives in Nilotic in a typological perspective
, 2009 Amongst the set of widespread derivational extensions on verbs in Nilotic, there is one prototypically marking an event directed towards some individual or a location, usually referred to as the Dative marker in the study of this language family.
Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.
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Morpological stratification in Dinka
Studies in African Linguistics, 1992 Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology.
Torben Andersen
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Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2012 North African populations are distinct from sub-Saharan Africans based on cultural, linguistic, and phenotypic attributes; however, the time and the extent of genetic divergence between populations north and south of the Sahara remain poorly understood ...
Brenna M Henn +11 more
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