Sumo language

Sumo language

language
name=Sumo
nativename=Sumu
familycolor=American
states=Nicaragua, Honduras
region=Huaspuc River and its tributaries
speakers=7,000
fam1=Misumalpan
fam2=Sumalpan
iso2=cai|iso3=sum

Sumo (also known as Sumu) is the collective name for a group of Misumalpan languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras. Hale & Salamanca (2001) classifies the Sumu languages into a northern composed of the Twahka and Panamahka dialects and southern Sumu consisting of the Ulwa language. Sumu specialist Ken Hale considers the differences between Ulwa and Northern Sumu in both vocabulary and morphology to be so considerable that he prefers to speak of it as a language distinct from the northern Sumu varieties.

Bibliography

*Hale, Ken and Danilo Salamanca (2001) "Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in Dictionaries of the Misumalpan Languages", in Frawley, Hill & Munro eds. "Making Dictionaries: Preserving indigenous Languages of the Americas". University of California Press.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sum Ethnologue report]


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