Päri language
Luo language spoken in South Sudan
| Päri | |
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| Lokoro | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
| Region | Upper Nile State |
| Ethnicity | Pari |
Native speakers | 79,000 (2017)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lkr |
| Glottolog | pari1256 |
Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,[2] 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).[3][4]
References
- ^ Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity
- ^ G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46
- ^ C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press
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Eastern Sudanic languages
Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
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