Eastern Nilotic languages
- Eastern Nilotic languages
Infobox Language family
name=Eastern Nilotic
region=SouthernEthiopia ,Sudan ,Uganda ,Kenya and northernTanzania
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Nilotic
child1=Bari
child2=Teso-Lotuko-MaaThe Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the
Nilotic languages , themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home inEquatoria in the far south ofSudan . They are spoken across a large area inEast Africa , ranging from Equatoria to the highlands ofTanzania . Their speakers are mostly cattle herders living in semi-arid or arid plains.According to Vossen, they are classified as follows by the comparative method:
*
Bari languages
* Teso-Lotuko-Maa:
**Teso-Turkana languages (or Ateker languages)
***Teso language
***Turkana language
***Karimojong language
**Lotuko-Maa:
***Lotuko languages
****Lotuko language
****Lango language
****Lopit language
****Lokoya language
****Dongotono language
***Ongamo-Maa languages
****Ongamo language
****Maa languages
*****Maasai language (see alsoMukogodo-Maasai )
*****Camus language
*****Samburu language (see alsoElmolo-Samburu )It is generally agreed upon that Bari forms a primary branch, but lower-level splits are less clear.
ee also
*
Western Nilotic languages
*Southern Nilotic languages Bibliography
* Rainer Vossen. "The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions". Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. ISBN 3-496-00698-6.
External links
* [http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_suppl/abstracts/ASM_s10.html A Classified Vocabulary of the Turkana in Northwestern Kenya] , by Itaru Ohta, 1989.
* [http://camba.ucsd.edu/bakovic/work/bakovic_vhcen.pdf Vowel Harmony and Cyclicity in Eastern Nilotic] , Eric Bakovic
* [http://camba.ucsd.edu/bakovic/work/bakovic_micro.pdf The Consequences of Microvariation in Eastern Nilotic] , Eric Bakovic
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