Logorik language

Not to be confused with Ligurian language (ancient).

Logorik
Laggori, Liguri, Logori, Subori
Native to	Sudan
Region	South Kordofan
Ethnicity	Logorik
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1971) [1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern? Daju Eastern Logorik
Dialects	Liguri Saburi Tallau
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	liu
Glottolog	logo1261
ELP	Logorik
Logorik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Logorik, Subori, or Saburi is a (critically) endangered ^{[2] [3]} language spoken in Eastern Sudan and Western Chad. ^{[4] [5]}

General information

It is a part of the Nilo-Saharan group and the subcategory of the Eastern Daju languages. ^{[4] [5]} It is spoken by the Subori people in the Nuba Mountains and South Kordofan. ^{[4] [5]}

Meinhof claims, that there are hardly any similarities between this language and other Kordofan languages vocabulary-wise. ^[6] At the same time, the Logorik-speaking community is overwhelmingly bilingual; other dominating languages being, among others, Arabic, (due to the Arabic migration in the region). ^{[4] [5]} This causes a high percentage of loanwords and grammatical borrowings (mostly Arabic) in the Logorik language. ^[4]

Phonetics

Vowels

Logorik vowels ^[4]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid-High	e		o
Mid		ə
Low		a

Consonants

Logorik consonants ^[4]

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/Affricate	Voiceless	p	t	( ʈ )	ʧ	k	( ʔ )
	Voiced	b	d	( ɖ )	tʒ [a]	g
Implosive		ɓ	ɗ		ʄ
Fricative	Voiceless	( f ) [b]	s			x	h
	Voiced		z
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Rhotic			r	( ɽ )
Lateral			l
Approximant		w

1. written tʒ in Manfredi 2013 ^[4]
2. /f/ is quite rare. It usually appears in loanwords and other borrowings. ^[4]

Also, it is worth mentioning, that the glottal stops, symbolized by (ʔ), are present in Logorik. ^[4]

Tonality

Logorik is a tonal language, meaning there are high tones and falling tones. ^[4] When it comes to tones, the tone of a preceding syllable must be different from the one coming after it. ^[4]

Grammar

Genus

There is no feminine genus in the Logorik language morphology-wise. ^[4] There are however six other classes and their plural form depends on the final position of the singular form. ^[4]

Nouns

A plural form of a noun is created by adding an appropriate suffix. ^[4]

Verbs

There are only perfective and imperfective conjugations documented. ^[4] Prefixes and suffixes play a very important role in signaling the context/tense, e.g. future tense is shown by the prefix and háŋ-; habitual activities by a suffix -cà. ^[4]

References

1. Logorik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Atlas of the world's languages in danger. Christopher Moseley, Alexandre Nicolas, Unesco, Unesco. Intangible Cultural Heritage Section (3rd ed. entirely revised, enlarged and updated ed.). Paris: Unesco. 2010. ISBN   978-92-3-104095-5. OCLC   610522460.
3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fenning, Charles D. (2020). Ethnoloɠue: Languages in Africa and Europe (23rd ed.). Dallas: SIL International Publications. p.279. ISBN   978-1-55671-458-0.
4. Manfredi, Stefano (2013). "Arabic borrowings in Laggori (Eastern Daju)". Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp. 463–484.
5. Thelwall, Robin. 1978. Lexicostatistical Relations between Nubian, Daju and Dinka. In Études nubiennes: Colloque de Chantilly, 2-6 juillet 1975, 265-286. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire.
6. Meinhof, Carl (1965) [1910-1919]. "Saburi". Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen. 7/9: 48–49.

External links

• Subori basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database