Katloid languages explained

Katloid
Also Known As:Katla-Tima
Region:Nuba Hills, Sudan
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Katla–Rashad[1]
Glotto:katl1246
Glottorefname:Katla–Tima

The Katla languages are two to three closely related languages that form a small language family in the Nuba Hills of Sudan. Part of an erstwhile Kordofanian proposal, they are of uncertain position within the hypothetical Niger–Congo family. They do not share the characteristic morphology of Niger–Congo, such as the noun-class system. Thus Roger Blench classifies them as a divergent branch of Niger–Congo outside the Atlantic–Congo core. A similar situation holds for another Kordofanian family, Rashad; these are not closely related to Katla.

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  1. [Gerrit Dimmendaal]