RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Kuliak Languages, Advanced And Retracted Tongue Root, Luo Dialect
9 Aug 2016
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Why typology is really hard in africa typology (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Nigeria alone has 500 languages) entire families of languages that are endangered travel to africa is complicated (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) corruption is a problem. 20/54 countries currently have us state department travel warnings getting to speakers from transit hub is tough. Africa as 4 main language families pretty well accepted. Khoisan (cid:12254) (cid:12254) these classi cations are the best we have pretty well accepted. Nilo-saharan languages has isolating, clicky languages greenberg couldn"t place elsewhere people don"t believe this is a family. Advanced tongue root in languages that it is important, it is realllyyy important really common in africa. Sov word order every noun is marked with a su x: singular plural, de nite, inde nite or demonstrative no gender, not even pronouns. Atr harmony level stones di erentiates alienable and inalienable possessions ex. my arm vs my laptop. Kuliak languages (cid:12254) (cid:12254) sub fam of nilo-saharan.
