The Talodi–Heiban languages are a proposed branch of the hypothetical Niger–Congo family, spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan . The Talodi and Heiban languages are thought to be distantly related by Dimmendaal, though Glottolog 4.4 does not accept the unity of Talodi–Heiban pending further evidence.
4-651: Roger Blench (2016) notes that the Talodi and Heiban branches share many typological similarities, but few lexical similarities. Blench (2016) considers Talodi and Heiban to each be separate, independent Niger-Congo branches that had later converged due to mutual contact. Talodi and Heiban had each constituted a group of the Kordofanian branch of Niger–Congo that was posited by Joseph Greenberg (1963); Talodi has also been called Talodi–Masakin, and Heiban has also been called Koalib or Koalib–Moro. Roger Blench notes that
8-705: A divergent Talodi language, has a different set of cognates with other Niger–Congo and has been placed in its own branch of Niger–Congo. Norton & Alaki (2015: 76, 126) classify the Talodi languages as follows. Proto-Talodi, Proto-Lumun-Torona, and Proto-Narrow Talodi have also been reconstructed by Norton & Alaki (2015). Torona , Lumun Tocho , Acheron Dagik Tuwal, Daloka -Aheimar Tasomi -Tata (Talodi), Nding Lexical correspondences between Proto-Heiban and Proto-Talodi according to Blench (2016): Noun class prefix comparison between Proto-Heiban and Proto-Talodi according to Blench (2016): Roger Blench Too Many Requests If you report this error to
12-667: The Kordofanian languages do not form a genealogical group, but that Talodi–Heiban is core Niger–Congo, whereas Katla and Rashad form a peripheral branch (or perhaps branches) along the lines of Mande . The Kadu languages may be Nilo-Saharan . Ko (Fungor, Kau, Nyaro) Warnang (Werni) Kwalib (Koalib, Rere) Logol (Lukha) Laro – Ebang (Heiban) Utoro (Otoro) Shirumba (Shwai) Tiro (Tira) Moro Lumun , † Torona Jomang (Talodi), † Nding (Eliri) Tocho (Tacho), Acheron (Asheron) Ngile (Daloka), Dengebu (Dagik) Lafofa (Tegem), sometimes classified as
16-632: The Talodi and Heiban families have the noun-class systems characteristic of the Atlantic–Congo core of Niger–Congo, but that the Katla languages (another putative branch of Kordofanian) have no trace of ever having had such a system, whereas the Kadu languages and some of the Rashad languages appear to have acquired noun classes as part of a Sprachbund , rather than having inherited them. He concludes that
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