Logorik language

Not to be confused with Ligurian language (ancient).

Logorik, Subori, or Saburi is a (critically) endangered^[2][3] language spoken in Eastern Sudan and Western Chad.^[4][5]

Logorik
Laggori, Liguri, Logori, Subori
Native to	Sudan
Region	South Kordofan
Ethnicity	Logorik
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1971)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern? Daju Eastern Logorik
Dialects	Liguri Saburi Tallau
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	liu
Glottolog	logo1261
ELP	Logorik
Logorik is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

General information

It is a part of the Nilo-Saharan group and the subcategory of the Eastern Daju languages.^[4][5] It is spoken by the Subori people in the Nuba Mountains and South Kordofan.^[4][5]

Meinhof claims, that there are hardly any similarities between this language and other Kordofan languages vocabulary-wise.^[6] At the same time, the Logorik-speaking community is overwhelmingly bilingual; other dominating languages being, among others, Arabic, (due to the Arabic migration in the region).^[4][5] This causes a high percentage of loanwords and grammatical borrowings (mostly Arabic) in the Logorik language.^[4]

Phonetics

Vowels

Logorik vowels^[4]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid-High	e		o
Mid		ə
Low		a

Consonants

Logorik consonants^[4]

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/Affricate	Voiceless	p	t	(ʈ)	ʧ	k	(ʔ)
	Voiced	b	d	(ɖ)	tʒ[a]	g
Implosive		ɓ	ɗ		ʄ
Fricative	Voiceless	(f)[b]	s			x	h
	Voiced		z
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Rhotic			r	(ɽ)
Lateral			l
Approximant		w

1. written tʒ in Manfredi 2013^[4]
2. /f/ is quite rare. It usually appears in loanwords and other borrowings.^[4]

Also, it is worth mentioning, that the glottal stops, symbolized by (ʔ), are present in Logorik.^[4]

Tonality

Logorik is a tonal language, meaning there are high tones and falling tones.^[4] When it comes to tones, the tone of a preceding syllable must be different from the one coming after it.^[4]

Grammar

Genus

There is no feminine genus in the Logorik language morphology-wise.^[4] There are however six other classes and their plural form depends on the final position of the singular form.^[4]

Nouns

A plural form of a noun is created by adding an appropriate suffix.^[4]

Verbs

There are only perfective and imperfective conjugations documented.^[4] Prefixes and suffixes play a very important role in signaling the context/tense, e.g. future tense is shown by the prefix and háŋ-; habitual activities by a suffix -cà.^[4]