Koman Languages (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Koman languages are a small close-knit family of languages located along the Sudan-Ethiopia border with about 50,000 speakers. They are commonly believed to belong to the Nilo-Saharan family, but evidence is slight, and among scholars who do accept inclusion, opinions vary as to their position within it. Greenberg included the Gumuz language of Ethiopia as a distant relation of Koman in a group he called Komuz. However, Bender, Blench, and other Nilo-Saharan specialists do not accept a special genealogical relationship between the two.