CENTRAL SUDANIC OVERVIEW DRAFT Roger Blench Kay Williamson Educational Foundation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge Correspondence address: 8, Guest Road Cambridge CB1 2AL United Kingdom Voice/ Ans 0044-(0)1223-560687 Mobile worldwide (00-44)-(0)7847-495590 E-mail
[email protected] http://www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm Roger Blench: Central Sudanic languages Draft for publication submission TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Central Sudanic within Nilo-Saharan 1 1.2 The history and culture of Central Sudanic languages 1 2. Classification................................................................................................................................................ 2 3. Subgroups .................................................................................................................................................... 3 3.1 Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi 3 3.2 Kresh-Aja 6 3.3 Biri 6 3.4 Formona-Sinyar [FS] 7 3.5 Mangbutu-Efe 7 3.6 Mangbetu-Asua 7 3.7 Lendu-Ngiti 8 3.8 Moru-Maɗi 8 4. Linguistic features (preliminary only)....................................................................................................... 9 4.1 Phonology 9 4.1 Vowels................................................................................................................................................ 9 4.2 Consonants ........................................................................................................................................