Lumun language

Lumun (Lomon), also Kuku-Lumun, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.[2]

Lumun
Kuku-Lumun
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
Native speakers
15,000 (2014)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3lmd
Glottologlumu1239
ELPLumun
Luman is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Lumun is spoken in Canya’ru, Toromathan, and To’ri villages.[1]

Further reading
  • Smits, Heleen. 2007. Noun and noun phrase in Lumun (Kordofanian). M.A. thesis, Leiden University.
  • Smits, Heleen. 2011. Lumun noun classes and number. In Raija Kramer, Holger Trobs & Raimund Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus. Linguistische Beitrage zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, 8.-10. April 2010, pp. 271-283. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
  • Smits, Heleen. 2012. The prefix /ɔ́-/ in Lumun kinship terms and personal names. Occasional Papers in the study of Sudanese Languages 10:95-113.
  • Smits, Heleen. 2013. The locative-applicative suffix in Lumun. In Roger Blench & Thilo Schadeberg (eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp.219-236.
  • Smits, Heleen (2017). A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan (Ph.D. thesis). LOT (University of Leiden). hdl:1887/57165. ISBN 9789460932489.

References
  1. Lumun at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Smits, Heleen: A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan, PhD dissertation Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-94-6093-248-9, LOT Utrecht, 2 vols, XXX + 777 p. + XXIV
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