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They are subclassified as follows, following Stevenson 1956:

• Eastern Daju:
  • Shatt in the Shatt Hills southwest of Kadugli, Foreign relations Main article: Foreign relations of Sudan Sudan has a territorial dispute with Egypt over the Halaib Triangle. States Main article: States of Sudan Sudan has 26 states or wilayat: Al Jazirah, Al Qadarif, Bahr al Jabal, Blue Nile, East Equatoria, Junqali, Kassala, Khartoum, Lakes, North Bahr al... Sudan. (The name "Shatt" is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area.)
  • Liguri in the Nuba Hills, Foreign relations Main article: Foreign relations of Sudan Sudan has a territorial dispute with Egypt over the Halaib Triangle. States Main article: States of Sudan Sudan has 26 states or wilayat: Al Jazirah, Al Qadarif, Bahr al Jabal, Blue Nile, East Equatoria, Junqali, Kassala, Khartoum, Lakes, North Bahr al... Sudan
• Western Daju:
  • Mongo in Dar Daju, Chad (disambiguation). The Republic of Chad (تشاد) is a land-locked nation in central Africa. It borders Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest and Niger to the west. Due to its distance... Chad
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• Njalgulgule in southern Foreign relations Main article: Foreign relations of Sudan Sudan has a territorial dispute with Egypt over the Halaib Triangle. States Main article: States of Sudan Sudan has 26 states or wilayat: Al Jazirah, Al Qadarif, Bahr al Jabal, Blue Nile, East Equatoria, Junqali, Kassala, Khartoum, Lakes, North Bahr al... Sudan on the Sopo River

Proto-Daju has been partially reconstructed by Robin Thelwall (1981). In his judgement, the Eastern Daju languages separated from the others perhaps as much as 2000 years ago, while the Western Daju languages were spread more recently, perhaps by the Daju state which dominated Darfur - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ Darfur From Wikipedia Darfur (shown in green) is in western Sudan. Darfur ( Arabic دار فور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the... Darfur from about Events University of Paris receives charter from Philip II of France Births Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date). Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1244) Deaths The prominent Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi died in this year. Categories: 1200 ... 1200 AD until displaced by the Tunjur. The principal phonetic difference between the two branches is the reflex of proto-Daju *ɣ, reflected as Western *r and Eastern *x.

The typical verb root in Daju is a monosyllable of the form (C)VC(C). The perfective takes a prefixed k-; the imperfective, a prefixed a(n)-. The verb takes person suffixes. Suffixes on nouns serve to mark In linguistics, a singulative form is a form of a noun which expresses the idea of an individual example of the noun; for instance, snowflake may be considered a singulative from snow. In some languages, singulatives can be productively formed from collective nouns; eg Algerian Arabic ḥjəṛ... singulative (-tic, -təs), This article is about computer software. For related uses of the word, see Generic. In the GNU Compiler Collection, GENERIC is an intermediate representation common to all the front-ends of GCC. The middle-end of GCC, starting with the GENERIC representation and ending after the expansion to RTL, contains... generic, and Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. In the English language, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers. In English, nouns, pronouns, and demonstratives inflect for plurality. (See English plural.) In many other languages, for example German, Romance... plural forms.

References

• R. C. Stevenson. "A survey of the phonetics and grammatical structure of the Nuba Mountains languages, with particular reference to Otoro, Katcha and Nyimang." Afrika und Übersee 40, 1956-7.
• Robin Thelwall. "Lexicostatistical Subgrouping and Reconstruction of the Daju Group" in ed. Thilo Schadeberg & Lionel Bender, Nilo-Saharan: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Leiden, September 8-10, 1980. Foris: Dordrecht 1981.

External links

• Nuba Languages and History (http://www.nubasurvival.com/Nuba%20Vision/Vol%201%20Issue%203/7%20Language%20and%20history.htm), Robin Thelwall