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Päri language

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Native to
  
Ethnicity
  
Pari people

ISO 639-3
  
lkr

Region
  
Blue Nile State

Native speakers
  
(28,000 cited 1987)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan?Eastern SudanicNiloticWestern NiloticLuoNorthernJurPäri

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment, which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).

References

Päri language Wikipedia


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