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Lafofa
Tegem–Amira
RegionNuba Hills, Sudan
EthnicityLafofa
Native speakers
(5,100 cited 1984)[1]
Niger–Congo?
  • (?)
    • Lafofa
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3laf
Glottologlafo1243
ELPLafofa

Lafofa, also Tegem–Amira, is a Niger–Congo 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]

Unlike the neighbouring Talodi-Heiban languages which have SVO word order, the Lafofa languages have SOV word order.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lafofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Russell Norton, 'Lafofa: a distant Ijoid-related language'. CLAN 2016
  3. ^ Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.
  • Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"[1]
  • Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Tegem–Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger–Congo"[2]