Meaning of "Kordofanian" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF KORDOFANIAN

Kordofanian  [ˌkɔːdəʊˈfeɪnɪən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KORDOFANIAN

Kordofanian can act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES KORDOFANIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kordofanian languages

The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of half a dozen language families spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Kordofan Province, Sudan. In 1963 Joseph Greenberg added them to the Niger–Congo family, creating his Niger–Kordofanian proposal. The Kordofanian languages have not been shown to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger–Congo, however, nor have they been shown to constitute a valid group. Today the Kadu family is excluded, and the others usually included in Niger–Congo proper. Roger Blench notes that the Talodi and Heiban families have the noun-class systems characteristic of the Atlantic–Congo core of Niger–Congo, but that the two Katla languages 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 Talodi and Heiban are core Niger–Congo whereas Katla and Rashad form a peripheral branch along the lines of Mande.

Definition of Kordofanian in the English dictionary

The first definition of Kordofanian in the dictionary is a group of languages spoken in the Kordofan and Nuba Hills of the S Sudan: classed as an independent family, probably distantly related to Niger-Congo. Other definition of Kordofanian is denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages. Kordofanian is also of or relating to Kordofan.

TRANSLATION OF KORDOFANIAN

Find out the translation of Kordofanian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Kordofanian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Kordofanian» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 科尔多凡
• Translator English - Spanish: Kordofanian
• English: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Hindi: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Arabic: الكردفانية
• Translator English - Russian: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Portuguese: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Bengali: করডোফানিয়ান
• Translator English - French: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Malay: Kordofanian
• Translator English - German: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Japanese: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Korean: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Javanese: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Tamil: கோரடோஃபனியன்
• Translator English - Marathi: कॉर्डोफॅनियन
• Translator English - Turkish: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Italian: Kordofaniana
• Translator English - Polish: kordofańskich
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Romanian: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Greek: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Kordofaans
• Translator English - Swedish: Kordofanian
• Translator English - Norwegian: Kordofanian

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KORDOFANIAN»

Discover the use of Kordofanian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Kordofanian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The History and Geography of Human Genes

1.3, 2.7. 2.21, 3.1, 4.22, 4.30.1, 4.32, 5.1, 6.10, 6.11, 7.3, 8.1, 8.3.2, 9.1, 36.1. 37.1 , 50.1.1, 51.1.1, 51.2.1, 52., 53., 56.. 58.. 65.. 66.1. 1, SC 3: Bantoid (Niger- Kordofanian) Bamileke, Bamileke Kaka, Bamoun, Banyang, Tikar Chamba 1.1, 1.2.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza, 1994

Studies in African Linguistic Typology

Anywa (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan) Kffzime (Bantu, Niger-Congo, Amharic (Ethiopic; Semitic, Niger-Kordofanian) Afro-Asiatic) Koranko (Mande, Niger-Congo, Arabic ( Semitic; Afro-Asiatic) Niger-Kordofanian) Ateso (Nilotic; Nilo-Saharan) Koromfe ...

Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz, 2005

Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More ...

NlGER-CoNGO. LANGUAGES. Africa: Niger-Congo and Kordofanian language groups fuUmiom of Seave-Coa/a in. As they studied the languages of Africa south of the Sahara, 19th- and 20th-century scholars noted pervasive similarities that, ...

Andrew Dalby, 1998

Quotative Indexes in African Languages: A Synchronic and ...

... Khoisan Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger- Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger- Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger-Kordofanian Niger- Kordofanian ...

Tom Güldemann, 2008

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With Special ...

Families partaking in the Macro-Sudan belt Family Stock Greenberg's Supergroup AREAL CORE Mande — Niger-Kordofanian Kru Niger-Congo Niger- Kordofanian Gur Niger-Congo Niger-Kordofanian Kwa Niger-Congo Niger- Kordofanian ...

Osamu Hieda, Christa König, Hiroshi Nakagawa, 2011

A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification

only group of languages whose membership in Niger-Kordofanian has been questioned is the Kadugli branch of Kordofanian. Thilo C. Schadeberg, who has worked extensively on Kordofanian languages, concludes "that it is presently not  ...

Merritt Ruhlen, 1991

The World's Major Languages

Niger-Kordofanian is the family to which the vast majority of the languages of subSaharan Africa belong. Hundreds of languages fall into this group and about 350,000,000 people speak Niger-Kordofanian languages. Geographically, this ...

Bernard Comrie, 2009

Studies in African Linguistic Typology

... Nilo-Saharan) (Ubangian; Niger-Congo, Niger-Kordofanian) (Mande; Niger- Congo, Niger-Kordofanian) (Nilotic; Nilo-Saharan) (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic) (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic) (Gur; Niger-Congo, NigerKordofanian) (Omotic; Afro -Asiatic) (Nilotic , ...

F. K. Erhard Voeltz, 2006

Reflexives: Forms and functions

73 Lisu (Burmic; Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Karen, Sino-Tibetan) As body 74 Londo ( Bantu; Niger-Congo Proper, Niger-Kordofanian) Af body 75 Lotuxo (Eastern; Nilotic, East Sudanic, Nilo-Saharan) Af body 76 Luisefio (Takic; Uto-Aztecan, ...

Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Traci Walker, 2000

The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa

14 NIGER-KORDOFANIAN LANGUAGES Douglas Pulleyblank Niger- Kordofanian is the family to which the vast majority of the languages of sub- Saharan Africa belong. Hundreds of languages fall into this group and upwards of 100,000,000 ...

Bernard Comrie, 2003

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KORDOFANIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Kordofanian is used in the context of the following news items.

Exploring genetic markers of adult obesity risk in black adolescent …

... as Sotho speakers (that is, of southeastern Bantu-speaking descent), thus belonging to the Niger-Kordofanian ethno-linguistic group. «Nature.com, Jun 15»

Web Semantics: John Quijada and Ithkuil, his personal invented …

... only Wakashan evidentiality and Guugu Yimithirr coördinates but also Niger-Kordofanian aspectual systems, the nominal cases of Basque, ... «Wired, Mar 13»

Utopian for Beginners

... evidentiality and Guugu Yimithirr coördinates but also Niger-Kordofanian aspectual systems, the nominal cases of Basque, the fourth-person ... «The New Yorker, Dec 12»

Study Finds Africans More Genetically Diverse Than Other Populations

... 71 percent of their genes could be traced to the far-flung African linguistic group Niger-Kordofanian, 8 percent to other African groups and 13 ... «Washington Post, Apr 09»