Lumun language
{{Short description|Niger–Congo language of Sudan}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Lumun
|nativename=Kuku-Lumun
|region=Nuba Hills
|states=Sudan
|speakers=15,000
|date=2014
|ref=e25
|script=Latin alphabet
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Talodi–Heiban
|fam4=Talodi
|fam5=Tocho
|map2=Lang Status 60-DE.svg
|mapcaption2={{center|{{small|Luman is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}
|iso3=lmd
|glotto=lumu1239
|glottorefname=Lumun
}}
Lumun (Lomon), also Kuku-Lumun, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.Smits, Heleen: A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan, PhD dissertation Leiden 2017, {{ISBN|978-94-6093-248-9}}, LOT Utrecht, 2 vols, XXX + 777 p. + XXIV
Lumun is spoken in Canya’ru, Toromathan, and To’ri villages.
Further reading
- Smits, Heleen. 2007. Noun and noun phrase in Lumun (Kordofanian). M.A. thesis, Leiden University.
- Smits, Heleen. 2011. Lumun noun classes and number. In Raija Kramer, Holger Trobs & Raimund Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus. Linguistische Beitrage zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, 8.-10. April 2010, pp. 271-283. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Smits, Heleen. 2012. The prefix /ɔ́-/ in Lumun kinship terms and personal names. Occasional Papers in the study of Sudanese Languages 10:95-113.
- Smits, Heleen. 2013. The locative-applicative suffix in Lumun. In Roger Blench & Thilo Schadeberg (eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp.219-236.
- {{Cite thesis |last=Smits |first=Heleen |title=A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan |date=2017 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=LOT (University of Leiden) |isbn=9789460932489 |hdl=1887/57165 |hdl-access=free}}
References
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External links
- {{cite journal|url=http://www-01.sil.org/silepubs/Pubs/928474542840/LCDD_15_Lumun_Stirtz_final.pdf|title=Lumun Narrative Discourse Analysis}}
{{Languages of Sudan}}
{{Kordofanian languages}}
Category:Definitely endangered languages
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