Eastern Jebel languages

Eastern Jebel languages

Infobox Language family
name=(East) Jebel
region=Sudan
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Kir-Abbaian.

Gaam is spoken in a compact area around the towns of Bau, Bobuk, Kukur, and Sawda in the Tabi Hills, roughly 11°15'-30' N by 33°55'-34°10 E. The other three are spoken in isolated pockets to its south: Aka in the Sillok Hills, Kelo in the Tornasi Hills on jebels Tornasi (Kayli village) and Beni Sheko, and Molo at Jebel Malkan near the Ethiopian border.

Bibliography

* Malik Agaar Ayre & M. Lionel Bender, "Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary". Addis Abeba 1980.
* M. Lionel Bender. [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~harald2/grammars/eastern_jebel_comparative.zip "The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan"] . "Afrika und Übersee" 80 (1997), 81 (1998):189-215, 39-64.
* W. J. Crewe. "The Phonological Features of the Ingessana Language". 1975.
* E. E. Evans-Pritchard, "Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung", "Sudan Notes and Records" 15.1, 1932. pp. 1-61.
* F. S. & J. Lister. "The Ingessana Language: A Preliminary Description", "Journal of Ethiopian Studies" 4.1, 1966. pp. 41-44.
* B. Z. Seligman. "Notes on Two Languages Spoken in the Sennar Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan", "Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen" 2.4, 1912. pp.297-308.
* Timothy M. Stirtz. "Phonology and Orthography in Gaahmg", in ed. Leoma C. Gilley, "Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages No. 9", Entebbe: SIL-Sudan 2004.
* Sisto Verri. "Il Linguaggio degli Ingessana nell'Africa Occidentale", "Anthropos" 50, 1955. pp. 282-318.


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