Anywa Language

Description and Internal Reconstructions

Author: Mechthild Reh. Series edited by: M. Lionel Bender †, Franz Rottland †.

Series: NISA Nilo-Saharan – Studies in Language and Context Volume 11

1996
19 pp. Roman, 575 pp.
1 map, 46 tables, appendix: author index, language index, subject index
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
940 g
Paperback
€ 98.00

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The present work is a detailed phonological, morphological, syntactic, and text-oriented description of Anywa (Anywak), a western Nilotic language related to Shilluk and spoken in Ethiopia and Sudan along the rivers Sobat, Baro, Gelo, and Akobo. It used to be spoken by about 200,000 people, whereas more recent estimations state only 100,000 speakers anymore. The synchronic analysis is supplemented by internal reconstructions revealing the relative time depth and the specific paths of development of various grammatical features.

Typologists will find Anywa particularly interesting, since it belongs to the split-ergative languages, a language type considered for a long time absent in Africa. The book is complemented by an appendix of 55 pages containing Anywa texts with both word-by-word and free translations and by various indices.

By the author a compact dictionary of Anywa/Anywak was published in the same series, as well as further contributions:

Accompanying material:

• Anywa-English and English-Anywa Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-132-3)

Cross-reference:

• Actes du Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne / Proceedings of the Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Nice, 24–29 August 1992 (ISBN 978-3-927620-72-8)
• Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-140-8)
• Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-89645-401-0)
• Current Research in Nilo-Saharan (ISBN 978-3-89645-669-4)
• From Oral Literature to Video (ISBN 978-3-89645-579-6)
• Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture (ISBN 978-3-89645-660-1)

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