Surmic languages
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Name (Latin)
Surmic languages
Other forms of name
Beier-Didinga languages
Beir-Didinga languages
Didinga-Murle languages
Suri languages
Surma languages
See Also From tracing topical name
Eastern Sudanic languages
See Also From tracing place name
Ethiopia
Sudan
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q2066922
Library of congress:
sh 99013640
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 99189914: Surmic languages and cultures, 1998:p. 4ff (In her geographical survey of languages in the border area between Sudan, Kenya, and Ethiopia, Bryan (1945) distinguished between a "Murle Group" and a "Suri Group" ... as well as one called "Surma"; Greenberg published a series of articles on the classification of African languages ... identifying a Beir-Didinga group ... Tucker and Bryan (1956) made reference to a Didinga-Murle group corresponding to Greenberg's Beir-Didinga ... Bender (1971) proposed to abandon the label Didinga-Murle and to start using the name Surma instead; Bender (1977) produced a Surmic classification; Fleming (1983) proposed to start using the term Surmic instead of Surma; based on the scholarly work discussed above, we arrive at the subclassification for the Surmic family presented in Figure 1.3) language distr. map p. 8, Surmic subclassification (Dimmendaal, 1998) p. 13.
- Ethnologue, 13th ed., internet ed.:language family index (Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Eastern, Surmic; all languages listed in this group are spoken in Ethiopia or Sudan)
- Voegelin:p. 319, under Eastern Sudanic (Beier-Didinga=Surma)
Wikipedia description:
The Surmic languages are a branch of the Eastern Sudanic language family. Today, the various peoples who speak Surmic languages make their living in a variety of ways, including nomadic herders, settled farmers, and slash and burn farmers. They live in a variety of terrain, from the lowlands of South Sudan and the banks of the Omo River to mountains over 2,300 meters.
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