For quite some time, the genealogical classification of African languages has been in a
peculiar situation, one which is linked intricably to Greenberg's (1963a) study. His work is …

This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic
diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers …

Tirmaga is a language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia, which is part of a dialect cluster
referred to as Chai-Tirma-Mursi (Dimmendaal 1998). Some research has been done in the …

Mursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower
Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country. Based …

This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously
undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic …

Firew Girma Worku completed a reference Grammar of Mursi, a Nilo-Saharan Language
spoken in the Lower Omo Valley, in Southwestern Ethiopia. This is the first detailed …

The Mursi (autodenomination Mùn plural or Mùnì singular) are a small group of people
numbering around 7,500 (Population Census Commission, 2007), who live in the Lower …

Sociolinguistic Survey Report of Abortive Suri By Tim Girard SIL International 2002 Page 1
Sociolinguistic Survey Report of Abortive Suri By Tim Girard SIL International 2002 Page 2 2 …

Master of Arts with major in Applied Linguistics The Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics,
June 2018 Supervising Professor: Michael Boutin This thesis provides an analysis of noun …

In his continent-wide classification of African languages, Greenberg (1955) also established
a genetic unit called “Eastern Sudanic”, which constituted one of the sixteen African …