Kir-Abbaian languages

Kir-Abbaian languages

Infobox Language family
name=Kir-Abbaian
altname=Southern Eastern Sudanic
region=Sudan, Eritrea, Chad, Nubia
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
child1=Eastern Jebel
child2=Temein (Nuba Hills)
child3=Daju
child4=Surmic
child5=Nilotic

Kir-Abbaian is Christopher Ehret's name for one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages. They are characterized by having a /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Astaboran languages, which have an /k/. The most famous Kir-Abbaian language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic, which includes such languages as Maasai.

Ehret controversially includes the divergent Berta language in Kir-Abbaian, alongside (Eastern) Jebel in a branch he calls Jebel, but this is rejected by other historical linguists, and Berta is best considered an isolate within Nilo-Saharan pending further research. The name Kir is Ehret's term for the languages other than Jebel. He posits that Surma and Nilotic are particularly close.

Similar grouping proposed by M. L. Bender is named by him as Core East Sudanic.

References

*M. L. Bender, 2000. "Nilo-Saharan". In Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, eds., "African Languages: An Introduction." Cambridge University Press.
*Christopher Ehret, 2001. "A historical-comparative reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan." Köln: Rudiger Köppe.


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