Kuliak languages

The Kuliak languages (sometimes called Rub) - Ik, Soo, and Nyang'i - are spoken by small relict communities in the mountains of northeastern Uganda. They form a branch of Nilo-Saharan, probably within the Eastern Sudanic branch, although their exact place within the family is disputed. Significant influence from Cushitic languages, and more recently Nilotic languages, is observable in the vocabulary and phonology. Bernd Heine and Christopher Ehret have both proposed reconstructions of Proto-Kuliak. Soo and Nyang'i form a subgroup, Western Kuliak, as against Ik.

It has been suggested that Kuliak elements may be observable in Oropom, if it exists.

See also

• Ik

References

• Bernd Heine. The Kuliak Languages of Eastern Uganda. Nairobi: East African Publishing House 1976.
• Christopher Ehret. "The classification of Kuliak", in ed. Thilo Schaderberg & Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, September 8-10, 1980. Foris: Dordrecht 1981.
• C. D. Laughlin. "Lexicostatistics and the mystery of So ethnolinguistic relations" in Anthropological Linguistics 17:325-41, 1975.

See also: Kuliak languages, Christopher Ehret, Cushitic languages, Eastern Sudanic languages, Ik, Nilo-Saharan languages, Nilotic languages, Oropom language, Uganda