Lumun language
| Lumun | |
|---|---|
| Kuku-Lumun | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2014)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lmd |
| Glottolog | lumu1239 |
| ELP | Lumun |
 Luman is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Lumun (Lomon), also Kuku-Lumun, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.[2]
Lumun is spoken in Canya’ru, Toromathan, and To’ri villages.[1]
Further reading
[edit]- Smits, Heleen. 2007. Noun and noun phrase in Lumun (Kordofanian). M.A. thesis, Leiden University.
- Smits, Heleen. 2011. Lumun noun classes and number. In Raija Kramer, Holger Trobs & Raimund Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus. Linguistische Beitrage zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, 8.-10. April 2010, pp. 271-283. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Smits, Heleen. 2012. The prefix /ɔ́-/ in Lumun kinship terms and personal names. Occasional Papers in the study of Sudanese Languages 10:95-113.
- Smits, Heleen. 2013. The locative-applicative suffix in Lumun. In Roger Blench & Thilo Schadeberg (eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp.219-236.
- Smits, Heleen (2017). A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan (Ph.D. thesis). LOT (University of Leiden). hdl:1887/57165. ISBN 9789460932489.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lumun at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Smits, Heleen: A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan, PhD dissertation Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-94-6093-248-9, LOT Utrecht, 2 vols, XXX + 777 p. + XXIV
External links
[edit]- "Lumun Narrative Discourse Analysis" (PDF).
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