Logorik | |
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Laggori, Liguri, Logori, Subori | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | South Kordofan |
Ethnicity | Logorik |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1971)[1] |
Dialects |
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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]
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]
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid-High | e | o | |
Mid | ə | ||
Low | a |
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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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 |
Also, it is worth mentioning, that the glottal stops, symbolized by (ʔ), are present in Logorik.[4]
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]
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]
A plural form of a noun is created by adding an appropriate suffix.[4]
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]