Päri language
{{Short description|Luo language spoken in South Sudan}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Päri
| states = South Sudan
| region = Upper Nile State
| ethnicity = Pari
| speakers = 79,000
| date = 2017
| ref = e25
| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan
| fam2 = Eastern Sudanic?
| fam3 = Kir–Abbaian?
| fam4 = Nilotic
| fam5 = Western
| fam6 = Luo
| fam7 = Northern
| iso3 = lkr
| glotto = pari1256
| glottorefname = Päri
}}
Päri, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,{{cite journal |first=T. |last=Anderson |year=1988 |title=Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language |journal=Lingua |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=289–324|doi=10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3 }}, cited in {{Cite book |last=Dixon |first=R.M.W. |title=Ergativity |year=1994 |page=44 |url=https://archive.org/details/ergativity0000dixo/page/44/mode/2up |url-access=registration |isbn=0-521-44898-0 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=Cambridge Studies in Linguistics}} which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).{{Cite journal |last=Dimmendaal |first=G. |year=2010 |title=Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan |journal=Journal of African Linguistics and Languages |volume=31 |pages=13–46 |doi=10.1515/jall.2010.003}}{{Cite book |last=König |first=C. |title=Case in Africa |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008}}
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Torben |year=2000 |title=Anywa and Pari. Part 2: A Morphosyntactic Comparison |journal=Afrika und Übersee |volume=83 |issue=1 |pages=65–87}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Torben |year=1999 |title=Anywa and Päri, I: a phonological and morphophonological comparison (review article) |journal=Afrika und Übersee |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=251–271}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Torben |year=1989 |title=The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development |journal=Journal of African Languages and Linguistics |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1515/jall.1989.11.1.1}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Torben |year=1988 |title=Consonant alternation in the verbal morphology of Päri |journal=Afrika und Übersee |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=63–113}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Torben |year=1988 |title=Downstep in Päri: the tone system of a Western Nilotic language |journal=Studies in African Linguistics |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=261–315|doi=10.32473/sal.v19i3.107458 }}
- {{Cite journal |last=König |first=Christa |year=2006 |title=Marked Nominative in Africa |journal=Studies in Language |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=655–732 |doi=10.1075/sl.30.4.02kon}}
- {{Cite book |last=Simeoni |first=Antonio |title=Päri: a Luo language of southern Sudan, small grammar and vocabulary |publisher=E.M.I. |year=1978 |editor-last=Santandrea |editor-first=Stefano |series=Museum Combonianum |volume=34 |location=Bologna, Italy}}
- {{Cite book |last=Storch |first=Anne |title=The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic |publisher=Rüdiger Köppe |year=2005 |isbn=9783896451392 |series=Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation |volume=21 |location=Köln |oclc=68629247}}
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