Surmic

E247382

language family subgroup proposed language branch

Surmic is a proposed branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family comprising several related languages spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia and neighboring regions.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Surmic canonical	1

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language family subgroup ⓘ proposed language branch ⓘ
alternativeName	Surma ⓘ Surmic languages ⓘ
associatedEthnicGroups	Didinga people ⓘ Me’en people ⓘ Mursi people ⓘ Suri people ⓘ Tennet people ⓘ
classificationStatus	proposed ⓘ
country	Ethiopia ⓘ
documentationStatus	under-documented ⓘ
geographicCluster	Omo River ⓘ surface form: Omo River region
hasSubgroup	Surmic languages ⓘ surface form: North Surmic Surmic languages ⓘ surface form: South Surmic
hasWritingSystem	Latin script (for some languages) ⓘ
includesLanguage	Bale language ⓘ Didinga language ⓘ Kwegu language ⓘ Meʼen language ⓘ surface form: Me’en language Mursi language ⓘ Suri language ⓘ Tennet language ⓘ
languageEndangerment	several member languages are endangered ⓘ
linguisticFamilyStatus	controversial within Nilo-Saharan classification ⓘ
partOf	Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ surface form: Nilo-Saharan language family
region	neighboring regions of South Sudan ⓘ southwestern Ethiopia ⓘ
researchField	African linguistics ⓘ
spokenIn	Ethiopia ⓘ South Sudan ⓘ
typologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ rich case-marking or postpositional systems ⓘ tone languages ⓘ
usedFor	oral communication in local communities ⓘ

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shabo language (proposed) → languageFamilyHypothesis → Surmic ⓘ

subject surface form: Shabo language