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Lumun
Kuku-Lumun
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Native speakers	15,000 (2014)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Talodi Tocho Lumun
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lmd
Glottolog	lumu1239
ELP	Lumun
Luman is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Lumun (Lomon), also Kuku-Lumun, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan.

Lumun is spoken in Canya’ru, Toromathan, and To’ri villages.

Further reading

• Smits, Heleen. 2007. Noun and noun phrase in Lumun (Kordofanian). M.A. thesis, Leiden University.
• Smits, Heleen. 2011. Lumun noun classes and number. In Raija Kramer, Holger Trobs & Raimund Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus. Linguistische Beitrage zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, 8.-10. April 2010, pp. 271-283. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
• Smits, Heleen. 2012. The prefix /ɔ́-/ in Lumun kinship terms and personal names. Occasional Papers in the study of Sudanese Languages 10:95-113.
• Smits, Heleen. 2013. The locative-applicative suffix in Lumun. In Roger Blench & Thilo Schadeberg (eds), Nuba Mountain Language Studies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. pp.219-236.
• Smits, Heleen (2017). A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan (Ph.D. thesis). LOT (University of Leiden). hdl:1887/57165. ISBN 9789460932489.

References

1. ^ Lumun at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Smits, Heleen: A grammar of Lumun: a Kordofanian language of Sudan, PhD dissertation Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-94-6093-248-9, LOT Utrecht, 2 vols, XXX + 777 p. + XXIV

External links

• "Lumun Narrative Discourse Analysis" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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