Roger Blench: Kordofanian materials

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The Kordofanian languages are spoken entirely in the Nuba mountains, Sudan. The scattering of the population due to the Sudanese civil wars means the status of many languages is uncertain. This page is an attempt to gather largely unpublished sources on Kordofanian. Some of these are papers by me but many are from archive sources, and the authors and original computer files appear to be lost. Thanks to Elizabeth Guest for supply original files and fonts for some documents.

Kordofanian was magicked into reality by Joseph Greenberg but many researchers question its reality (though so far without putting a case for another classification). See my paper for my current views of the situation. The Kadu languages are definitely not Niger-Congo and are listed under Nilo-Saharan.

A conference on the languages of the Nuba Hills was held in Leiden in September 2011, and a volume of collected papers, together with newly commissioned papers, wa published by myself and Thilo Schadeberg in 2013.

Group	Language	Title
General	Kordofanian	Splitting up Kordofanian: Nuba Hills Conference paper, September 2011, Leiden
Tegem-Amira	Tegem-Amira	Tegem-Amira
Heiban	Heiban page	Papers on Heiban
	Moro	Papers on Moro and dictionary
	Otoro page	Papers on Otoro
	Cwaya	Papers on Cwaya
Talodi	Hadara	Hadara phonology
	Masakin	Papers on Masakin by Crocker
	Tira	Tira wordlist, 1995
	Tocco	Tocco wordlist
	Lumun	Papers on Lumun
	Dagik page	Papers on Dagik

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