The Southern Eastern Sudanic , Eastern n Sudanic , En Sudanic languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000). It is rejected as an established group in Starostin (2015).
3-496: The Southern Eastern Sudanic languages are characterized by having an /n/ in the pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have a /k/. The best known Southern Eastern Sudanic language group, as well as the largest, is Nilotic , which includes such languages as Maasai . Bender (1996) offers fifteen possible En Sudanic innovations. This Nilo-Saharan languages –related article
6-546: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northern Eastern Sudanic languages The Northern Eastern Sudanic , Eastern k Sudanic , Ek Sudanic , NNT or Astaboran languages may form a primary division of the proposed Eastern Sudanic family . They are characterised by having a / k / in the first person singular pronoun "I/me", as opposed to the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an / n /. Nyima has yet to be conclusively linked to
9-435: The other languages, and would appear to be the closest relative of Ek Sudanic rather than Ek Sudanic proper. The most well-known language of this group is Nubian . According to Claude Rilly , the ancient Meroitic language appears on limited evidence to be closely related to the languages of this group. A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Eastern Sudanic has also been proposed by Rilly (2010). Rilly (2009:2) provides
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