Surmic branch of Nilo-Saharan
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The Surmic branch of Nilo-Saharan is a subgroup of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia and neighboring regions, encompassing languages such as Majang and other closely related Surmic tongues.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Surmic languages
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language family branch ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
East Africa
NERFINISHED
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Horn of Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Surma
NERFINISHED
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Surmic NERFINISHED ⓘ Surmic branch ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeakerPopulation | several hundred thousand speakers across all Surmic languages ⓘ |
| hasEthnolinguisticGroup |
Didinga people
NERFINISHED
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Majangir people NERFINISHED ⓘ Murle people NERFINISHED ⓘ Mursi people NERFINISHED ⓘ Suri people NERFINISHED ⓘ Surma peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Bale language
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Chai language NERFINISHED ⓘ Didinga language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kwegu language ⓘ Majang language NERFINISHED ⓘ Murle language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mursi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Suri language ⓘ Tennet language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tirma language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
agglutinative morphology
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complex verbal morphology ⓘ rich case marking ⓘ tone ⓘ verb–final tendencies in some languages ⓘ vowel harmony in some languages ⓘ |
| hasMajorSubdivision |
North Surmic
NERFINISHED
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South Surmic ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRegion | Omo Valley region of Ethiopia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchField |
African linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ |
| hasResearchTopic |
internal classification of Nilo-Saharan
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language contact in the Ethiopia–South Sudan borderlands ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
minority language group
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underdescribed language family branch ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalRelation | related to other Eastern Sudanic branches such as Nilotic ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystemStatus | mostly unwritten or limited orthographies ⓘ |
| isSpokenIn |
Ethiopia
NERFINISHED
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South Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ border regions of Ethiopia and South Sudan ⓘ southwestern Ethiopia ⓘ |
| partOf | Nilo-Saharan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Eastern Sudanic languages
NERFINISHED
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Nilo-Saharan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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