科尔多凡语族

科尔多凡语族是尼日爾-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」並列中國大百科智慧藏：尼日爾-科爾多凡語系。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Herman Bell. (1995). The Nuba Mountains: Who Spoke What in 1976? .  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.。

過往Tumtum語或Kadu languages亦被認為是科爾多凡語族的成員之一陈林华，(n.d.)，Chapter Twelve Historical-Comparative Linguistics ，《语言学导论》，中國：吉林大学出版社。，但現時普遍已排除出外. 1981c.  "The classification of the Kadugli language group".  Nilo-Saharan, ed. by T. C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender, pp. 291-305.  Dordrecht: Foris Publications.，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人大英簡明百科：尼日－剛果諸語言 ，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
 东部Eastern
 Ko ()
 Warnang ()
 中西部West-Central
 中部Central
 Ebang-Logol
 Ebang-Laru
 Heiban ()
 Laro ()
 Logol
 Logol ()
 Utoro
 Otoro ()
 Rere
 Koalib ()
 Shirumba
 Shwai ()
 西部Western
 Moro ()
 Tira ()
 Katla
 Katla ()
 Tima ()
 Rashad 語支：又名 Tegali-Tagoi
 Tegali ()
 Tagoi ()
 Tingal ()
 Talodi 語支：又名 Talodi-Masakin 或 Lafofa
 Talodi Proper
 Jomang
 Talodi ()
 Nding
 Nding ()
 Ngile-Dengebu
 Dagik ()
 Ngile ()
 Tocho
 Acheron ()
 Lumun ()
 Tocho ()
 Torona ()
 Tegem
 Lafofa ()

 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? .  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  Unpublished.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 .
 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 

Category:尼日-剛果語系