The Southern Eastern Sudanic, Eastern ''n'' Sudanic, En Sudanic or Kir–Abbaian languages form one of two primary divisions of the
Eastern Sudanic languages
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
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in the classification of
Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).
The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the
Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is
Nilotic
The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. Among these are the Burun-sp ...
, which includes such languages as
Maasai Maasai may refer to:
* Maasai people
*Maasai language
* Maasai mythology
* MAASAI (band)
See also
* Masai (disambiguation)
* Massai
Massai (also known as: Masai, Massey, Massi, Mah–sii, Massa, Wasse, Wassil or by the nickname "Big Foot" Mas ...
.
Southern Eastern Sudanic roots
Bender (1996) offers fifteen possible ''En'' Sudanic innovations.
[M. L. Bender, 1996. Genetic sub-grouping of East Sudanic. — Afrikanische Arbeitspapiere 45, 1996, 139-150.]
References
*M. L. Bender, 2000. "Nilo-Saharan". In Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, eds., ''African Languages: An Introduction.'' Cambridge University Press.
Eastern Sudanic languages
Southern Eastern Sudanic
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