The Kuliak languages, also called the Rub or Nyangiyan languages, are spoken by small relict communities in the mountainous Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. Two of the family's languages, Nyang'i and Soo, are moribund with only a handful of elderly speakers remaining, while the third, Ik, remains vigorous and growing. Kuliak languages follow verb-initial word order.
Facts
Disputed
Proto-Language StatusKuliak's external affiliation is unresolved and has shifted repeatedly: classified within Eastern Sudanic, then as a basal Nilo-Saharan branch, while Glottolog treats it as an independent family and rejects Nilo-Saharan as a valid grouping. Bernd Heine has proposed Proto-Kuliak sound correspondences. 1 RegionKaramoja region of northeastern Uganda 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kuliak languages
WikipediaIntroduction, first sentence
The Kuliak languages, also called the Rub languages, or Nyangiyan languages are a group of languages spoken by small relict communities in the mountainous Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda.
External classification section
Bender (1989) had classified the Kuliak languages within the Eastern Sudanic languages. Later, Bender (2000) revised this position by placing Kuliak as basal branch of Nilo-Saharan. Glottolog treats Kuliak as an independent language family and does not accept Nilo-Saharan as a valid language family.
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