Päri, or Lokoro, is a
Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have
ergative alignment, which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as
marked nominative
In linguistic typology, marked nominative alignment is an unusual type of morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment. In a prototypical nominative–accusative language with a g ...
(nominative–absolutive).
[C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press]
References
Luo languages
{{ns-lang-stub