Roger Blench: Kordofanian materials

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The Kordofanian languages are spoken entirely in the Nuba mountains, Sudan. The scattering of the population due to the Sudanese civil wars means the status of many languages is uncertain. This page is an attempt to gather largely unpublished sources on Kordofanian. Some of these are papers by me but many are from archive sources, and the authors and original computer files appear to be lost. Thanks to Elizabeth Guest for supply original files and fonts for some documents.

Kordofanian was magicked into reality by Joseph Greenberg but many researchers question its reality (though so far without putting a case for another classification). See my paper for my current views of the situation. The Kadu languages are definitely not Niger-Congo and are listed under Nilo-Saharan.

Group	Language	Title	Status	Download
General		Kordofanian and Niger-Congo: an evaluation of the evidence	Unpublished	Kordofanian
	Lumun	Papers on Lumun	Unpublished	Lumun page
	Moro	Papers on Moro and dictionary	Unpublished	Moro page
Heiban	Heiban	Papers on Heiban	Unpublished	Heiban page
	Masakin	Papers on Masakin by Crocker	Unpublished	Masakin page
	Cwaya	Papers on Cwaya	Unpublished	Cwaya page
Heiban	Hadara	Hadara phonology	Unpublished	Hadara
	Tira	Tira wordlist, 1995	Unpublished	Tira
	Tocco	Tocco wordlist	Unpublished	Tocco
	Dagik	Papers on Dagik	Unpublished	Dagik page
	Otoro	Papers on Otoro	Unpublished	Otoro page

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