Logorik language

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

Not to be confused with Suborian (Romance language) or Ligurian language (ancient).
Logorik
Laggori, Liguri, Logori, Subori
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityLogorik
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1971)[1]
Dialects
  • Saburi
Language codes
ISO 639-3liu
Glottologlogo1261
ELPLogorik
Logorik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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]
i u
e o
ə
a

Consonants
Logorik consonants[4]
p, b t,d (ɖ, ʈ) k,g (ʔ)
ɓ ɗ f
ʧ, tʒ
(f)* s, z x h
m n ɲ ŋ
r (ɽ)
l
w

*The labiodental "f" is quite rare and it usually appears in loanwords and other borrowings from foreign languages.[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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  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). Nuba Mountain Language Studies. pp. 463–484. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  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.


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