Harsunan Kuliak

Harsunan Kuliak, wanda kuma ake kira Harsunan Rub, Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte 12), Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, . ko yarukan Nyangiyan  rukuni ne na harsuna da ƙananan al'ummomin da ke magana a yankin Karamoja na sakewa maso gabashin Uganda.

Ik" title="Nyang'i language">Nyang'i da Soo Yana mutuwa, tare da wasu tsofaffi masu magana. Koyaya, Ik yana da ƙarfi kuma yana girma.

Tsarin kalma a cikin yarukan Kuliak shine kalma-farko.

 Sunayen 
Harsunan Kuliak kuma ana kiransu da Rub languages ta Ehret (1981), tunda Ehret ya sake gina "Rub" don nufin 'mutum' a cikin Proto-Kuliak. Ya nuna cewa "Kuliak" na iya zama kalmar wulaƙanci da mutanen da ke magana da Nilotic maƙwabta ke amfani da ita don ɓata wa masu magana da Kuliak suna a matsayin "matalauta," don haka ya fi son amfani da Rub maimakon haka.  Duk da haka, Kuliak ya ci gaba da zama sunan da aka fi amfani da shi, kuma Roger Blench, Terrill Schrock, Sam Beer da sauran masana harshe sun fi son shi, waɗanda suka lura cewa sunan "Kuliak" ba a ɗaukarsa a matsayin abin ƙyama ko ɓatanci ga kowane mai magana da Kuliak ba. [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2022)">ana buƙatar ambato</span> ]

 Tarihi 
Harsunan Kuliak a baya sun sami mafi girma a baya. Kalmomin aro na Kuliak a cikin yarukan Luhya, Gusii, Kalenjin da Sukuma sun nuna cewa waɗannan mutane sun zauna a yammacin Kenya da sassan kudancin Tafkin Victoria kafin kakannin waɗannan masu magana da Bantu da Nilotic su shawo kansu. Wadannan mutanen Kuliak da suka ƙare yanzu an san su da "Southern Rub". Kudancin Rub ya rayu har zuwa kudu kamar Lake Eyasi, kamar yadda kalmomin aro na Kuliak suka nuna a Hadza da Sandawe, kuma mai yiwuwa har zuwa gabas kamar Yankin Kilimanjaro, kamar yadda maganganun aro na Kuliaka suka nuna a cikin yarukan Chaga da Thagiicu.

 Rarraba 

 Cikin Gida 
Dangane da rarrabuwa na Heine (1976),  Soo da Nyang'i sun kafa rukuni, Western Kuliak, yayin da Ik ke tsaye da kanta.

 Na waje 
Bender (1989) ya rarraba harsunan Kuliak a cikin Harsunan Gabashin Sudan. Daga baya, Bender (2000) ya sake fasalin wannan matsayi ta hanyar sanya Kuliak a matsayin reshe na Nilo-Saharan. Glottolog yana bi da Kuliak a matsayin dangin harshe mai zaman kansa kuma ba ya yarda da Nilo-Saharan a matsayin danginsa harshe mai inganci.

Archibald Tucker ne ya ba da shawarar farko ga Ik a matsayin memba na Afroasiatic a cikin shekarun 1960s; an soki wannan a matsayin mai rauni kuma an watsar da shi a cikin shekarun 1980. 
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