科爾多凡語族

科爾多凡語族是尼日爾-剛果語系的三個分支之一，主要語言人口位於東非蘇丹中部科爾多凡地區南部的努巴山區內，是一個比較疏離的一個支系。1963年，約瑟·格林伯格(Joseph Greenberg)把它歸入尼日爾-科爾多凡語系之內，與由其它尼日爾-剛果語系的語言組成的「尼日爾-剛果語族」並列。今日，一般都把科爾多凡語系及其他原尼日爾-剛果語族的成員並列。儘管如此，由於科爾多凡語族的語言與其他尼日爾-剛果語系的語言少有共同之處，有些學者認為它不屬於尼日爾-剛果語系，並把它與門德語族（Mande languages，又譯曼德語族）放在同一個獨立的分類中。科爾多凡語族的語言人口組成到現在仍有爭議。
過往Tumtum語或Kadu languages亦被認為是科爾多凡語族的成員之一，但現時普遍已排除出外，而被歸入尼羅-撒哈拉語系之內。
現時，科爾多凡語族的成員大約有二十多種語言，人口不超過200,000人，大致可分為四個語支。
從民族學的角度來說，科爾多凡語族的語言人口都是努巴人(Nuba)的一部份。

**分支**
 Heiban 語支：又名 Koalib 或 Koalib-Moro
** 東部Eastern
*** Ko (fuj)
*** Warnang (wrn)
** 中西部West-Central
*** 中部Central
**** Ebang-Logol
***** Ebang-Laru
****** Heiban (hbn)
****** Laro (lro)
***** Logol
****** Logol (lof)
***** Utoro
****** Otoro (otr)
**** Rere
***** Koalib (kib)
*** Shirumba
**** Shwai (shw)
*** 西部Western
**** Moro (mor)
**** Tira (tic)- Katla
** Katla (kcr)
** Tima (tms)- Rashad 語支：又名 Tegali-Tagoi
** Tegali (ras)
** Tagoi (tag)
** Tingal (tie)- Talodi 語支：又名 Talodi-Masakin 或 Lafofa
** Talodi Proper
*** Jomang
**** Talodi (tlo)
*** Nding
**** Nding (eli)
*** Ngile-Dengebu
**** Dagik (dec)
**** Ngile (jle)
*** Tocho
**** Acheron (acz)
**** Lumun (lmd)
**** Tocho (taz)
**** Torona (tqr)
** Tegem
*** Lafofa (laf)

**參看**
 門德語族

**參考**

**註釋**

**一般參考**
 Herman Bell. 1995.  The Nuba Mountains: Who Spoke What in 1976? date=19990128130556 .  Being a study of the published results from a major project of the Institute of African and Asian Studies: the Language Survey of the Nuba Mountains.- Roger Blench.  Unpublished.   Kordofanian and Niger-Congo: an evaluation of the evidence date=20060504010807 .- P. A. and D. N. MacDiarmid.  1931.  "The languages of the Nuba Mountains."  Sudan Notes and Records 14: 149-162.- Carl Meinhof. 1915-1919.  "Sprachstudien im egyptischen Sudan".  Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen 9-9.  "1. Tagoy." 6: 164-161.  "2. Tumale". 6:182-205.  "11. Tegele." 7:110-131. "12. Rashad." 7:132.- Thilo C. Schadeberg. 1981a.  A survey of Kordofanian.  SUGIA Beiheft 1-2.  Hamburg:Helmut Buske Verlag.- Thilo C. Schadeberg. 1981b.  "Das Kordofanische".  Die Sprachen Afrikas.  Band 1: Niger-Kordofanisch, ed. by Bernt Heine, T. C. Schadeberg, Ekkehard Wolff, pp. 117-28  SUGIA Beiheft 1-2.  Hamburg:Helmut Buske Verlag.- Brenda Z. Seligmann.  1910-11.  "Note on the language of the Nubas of Southern Kordofan." Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen 1:167-188.- Roland C. Stevenson. 1956-57.  "A survey of the phonetics and grammatical structure of the Nuba Mountains languages, with particular reference to Otoro, Katcha, and Nyimang."  Afrika und Übersee 40:73-84, 93-115; 41:27-65, 117-152, 171-196.- A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan. 1956.  The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. (Handbook of African Languages, Part III.)  Oxford University Press: London.- A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan. 1966.  Linguistic Analyses/The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. (Handbook of African Languages.)  Oxford University Press: London.- Lorenz Tutschek.  1848.  "Über die Tumale-Sprache."  Gelehrte Anzeigen, herausgegeben von Mitgliedern der k. bayer.  Akademie der Wissenschaften.  Nrs. 91-93; Spalten 729-52.  (=Bulletin der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften.  Nrs. 29-31.)- Lorenz Tutschek.  1848-50.  "On the Tumali language".  Proceedings of the Philological Society for 1846-47 and 1847-48. Vol 3:239-54.  Proceedings of the Philological Society for 1848-49 and 1849-50. Vol. 4:138-9.

**外部連結**
  Katcha-English Dictionary (one of the Kadu languages)-  The Nuba Mountains Homepage date=20200923011133