Päri language

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,[3] which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).[4][5]

Päri
Lokoro
Native toSouth Sudan
RegionUpper Nile State
EthnicityPari people
Native speakers
79,000 (2017)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lkr
Glottologpari1256

References

  1. Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
  3. T. Anderson (1988) 'Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language', Lingua 75:289–324, cited in R.M.W. Dixon (1994) Ergativity
  4. G. Dimmendaal (2010) 'Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan' Journal of African Linguistics and Languages 31:13-46
  5. C. König 2008 'Case in Africa' Oxford University Press


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