Päri language

Päri
Päri
Lokoro
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Upper Nile State
Ethnicity	Pari people
Native speakers	79,000 (2017)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Western Nilotic Luo Northern Jur Päri; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lkr
Glottolog	pari1256

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,^[3] which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).^[4]^[5]

References

^ Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
^ T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity
^ G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46
^ C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press

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[e25-1] Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5

[3] T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity

[4] G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46

[5] C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press

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