Päri language

Päri
Lokoro
Native to South Sudan
Region Blue Nile State
Ethnicity Pari people
Native speakers 28,000  (1987)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lkr

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri is well known due to the claim that it exhibits ergative [3] alignment, which is rare in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Päri at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ^ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
  3. ^ T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity
  4. ^ G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46
  5. ^ C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press


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