Logorik language
Daju language spoken in Sudan
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Logorik, Subori, or Saburi is a (critically) endangered[2][3] language spoken in Eastern Sudan and Western Chad.[4][5]
| Logorik | |
|---|---|
| Laggori, Liguri, Logori, Subori | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | South Kordofan |
| Ethnicity | Logorik |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1971)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | liu |
| Glottolog | logo1261 |
| ELP | Logorik |
 Logorik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
General information
It is a part of the Nilo-Saharan group and the subcategory of the Eastern Daju languages.[4][5] It is spoken by the Subori people in the Nuba Mountains and South Kordofan.[4][5]
Meinhof claims, that there are hardly any similarities between this language and other Kordofan languages vocabulary-wise.[6] At the same time, the Logorik-speaking community is overwhelmingly bilingual; other dominating languages being, among others, Arabic, (due to the Arabic migration in the region).[4][5] This causes a high percentage of loanwords and grammatical borrowings (mostly Arabic) in the Logorik language.[4]
Phonetics
Vowels
Consonants
Also, it is worth mentioning, that the glottal stops, symbolized by (ʔ), are present in Logorik.[4]
Tonality
Grammar
Genus
There is no feminine genus in the Logorik language morphology-wise.[4] There are however six other classes and their plural form depends on the final position of the singular form.[4]
Nouns
A plural form of a noun is created by adding an appropriate suffix.[4]
Verbs
There are only perfective and imperfective conjugations documented.[4] Prefixes and suffixes play a very important role in signaling the context/tense, e.g. future tense is shown by the prefix and háŋ-; habitual activities by a suffix -cà.[4]