Päri language explained

Päri
Nativename:	Lokoro
States:	South Sudan
Region:	Upper Nile State
Ethnicity:	Pari
Speakers:	79,000
Date:	2017
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Nilo-Saharan
Fam2:	Eastern Sudanic?
Fam3:	Kir–Abbaian?
Fam4:	Nilotic
Fam5:	Western
Fam6:	Luo
Fam7:	Northern
Iso3:	lkr
Glotto:	pari1256
Glottorefname:	Päri

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,^[1] which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).^{[2] [3]}

Further reading

• Andersen . Torben . 2000 . Anywa and Pari. Part 2: A Morphosyntactic Comparison . Afrika und Übersee . 83 . 1 . 65–87.
• Andersen . Torben . 1999 . Anywa and Päri, I: a phonological and morphophonological comparison (review article) . Afrika und Übersee . 82 . 2 . 251–271.
• Andersen . Torben . 1989 . The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics . 11 . 1 . 1–20 . 10.1515/jall.1989.11.1.1.
• Andersen . Torben . 1988 . Consonant alternation in the verbal morphology of Päri . Afrika und Übersee . 71 . 1 . 63–113.
• Andersen . Torben . 1988 . Downstep in Päri: the tone system of a Western Nilotic language . Studies in African Linguistics . 19 . 3 . 261–315. 10.32473/sal.v19i3.107458 .
• König . Christa . 2006 . Marked Nominative in Africa . Studies in Language . 30 . 4 . 655–732 . 10.1075/sl.30.4.02kon.
• Book: Simeoni, Antonio . Päri: a Luo language of southern Sudan, small grammar and vocabulary . E.M.I. . 1978 . Santandrea . Stefano . Museum Combonianum . 34 . Bologna, Italy.
• Book: Storch, Anne . The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic . Rüdiger Köppe . 2005 . 9783896451392 . Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation . 21 . Köln . 68629247.

Notes and References

1. T. . Anderson . 1988 . Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language . Lingua . 75 . 4 . 289–324. 10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3 ., cited in Book: Dixon, R.M.W. . Ergativity . 1994 . 44 . registration . 0-521-44898-0 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Studies in Linguistics.
2. Dimmendaal . G. . 2010 . Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan . Journal of African Linguistics and Languages . 31 . 13–46 . 10.1515/jall.2010.003.
3. Book: König, C. . Case in Africa . Oxford University Press . 2008.