Social:Acheron language
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Short description: Niger–Congo language of Kordofan, Sudan
| Acheron | |
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| Asheron | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2006)[1] 9,800 in home area (2006)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | acz |
| Glottolog | ache1245[2] |
 Acheron is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Acheron (Asheron) is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan.
Acheron derives from the Arabic word aɟɟur-uun which means "innocent people",[3] it was later "indigenised as acʊrʊn" (Stevenson 1956: 102) and turned into aʃərɔn. The autoethonym in Acheron is wɑ-rəmɛ for the people and ɡə-rəmɛ for the language.[3]
The number of active speakers is estimated to be 9.800.[3] This number includes the community members and "diaspora speakers"[3] in other Sudanese towns and abroad.
Further reading
- Norton, Russell. 1995. Variation and change in the phonology of Asheron. M.A. Dissertation, University of Essex.
- Norton, Russell. 2000. The noun classes of Asheron. Occasional Papers in the study of Sudanese Languages 8:23-55.
- Norton, Russell. 2013. The Acheron vowel system: a participatory approach. In Roger Blench & Thilo Schadeberg (eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp. 195–217.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Acheron at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Acheron". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ache1245.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Norton, Rusell (2015-01-01). "Schadeberg, Thilo C. and Roger M. Blench: Nuba Mountain Language Studies". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 36 (1). doi:10.1515/jall-2015-0006. ISSN 0167-6164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2015-0006.
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