Päri language
| Päri | |
|---|---|
| Lokoro | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
| Region | Blue Nile State |
| Ethnicity | Pari people |
Native speakers | (28,000 cited 1987)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lkr |
| Glottolog |
pari1256[3] |
Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,[4] 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).[5][6]
References
- ↑ Päri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Päri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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