Get to know Kordofanian better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Kordofanian in a sentence
Kordofanian meaning
Of or pertaining to a geographic grouping of three to five language families spoken in the Nuba hills of Kordofan Province, Sudan.
Synonyms of Kordofanian
Using Kordofanian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a geographic grouping of three to five language families spoken in the Nuba hills of Kordofan Province, Sudan.
- Useful related words include: niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language.
- In the example corpus, kordofanian often appears in combinations such as: kordofanian languages, kordofanian as.
Context around Kordofanian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kordofanian
- In this selection, "kordofanian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 2000 and languages stand out and add context to how "kordofanian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include blench 2000 kordofanian languages spoken and branch of kordofanian does have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kordofanian" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kordofanian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Today, linguists often use "Niger–Congo" to refer to this entire family, including Kordofanian as a subfamily. (17 words)
One reason for this is that it is not clear whether Kordofanian was the first branch to diverge from rest of Niger–Congo. (23 words)
The Kordofanian languages have not been shown to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger–Congo, however, nor have they been shown to constitute a valid group. (29 words)
Other branches lacking any trace of the noun-class system are Dogon and Ijaw, whereas the Talodi branch of Kordofanian does have cognate noun classes, suggesting that Kordofanian is also not a unitary group. (34 words)
Many classifications continue to place Kordofanian as the most distant branch, but mainly due to negative evidence (fewer lexical correspondences), rather than positive evidence that the other languages form a valid genealogical group. (33 words)
Major clades The traditional branches and major languages of the Niger–Congo family are: Williamson & Blench (2000) * Kordofanian languages : spoken in southern central Sudan, around the Nuba Mountains (not a single family). (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
Other branches lacking any trace of the noun-class system are Dogon and Ijaw, whereas the Talodi branch of Kordofanian does have cognate noun classes, suggesting that Kordofanian is also not a unitary group.
Major clades The traditional branches and major languages of the Niger–Congo family are: Williamson & Blench (2000) * Kordofanian languages : spoken in southern central Sudan, around the Nuba Mountains (not a single family).
Many classifications continue to place Kordofanian as the most distant branch, but mainly due to negative evidence (fewer lexical correspondences), rather than positive evidence that the other languages form a valid genealogical group.
One reason for this is that it is not clear whether Kordofanian was the first branch to diverge from rest of Niger–Congo.
The Kordofanian languages have not been shown to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger–Congo, however, nor have they been shown to constitute a valid group.
Today, linguists often use "Niger–Congo" to refer to this entire family, including Kordofanian as a subfamily.
Common combinations with kordofanian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- kordofanian languages 2×
- kordofanian as 2×