Lafofa languages

Lafofa
Tegem–Amira
Region	Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity	Lafofa
Native speakers	unknown (5,100 cited 1984)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo (?) Lafofa
Dialects	Tegem Amira
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`laf`
Glottolog	`lafo1243`^[2]

Lafofa, also Tegem, is a Niger–Congo language cluster spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.

Long considered one of the Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, Blench posits that the Lafofa languages should be considered a distinct branch of Niger–Congo pending further research. They share cognates with divergent Niger–Congo languages such as Ijo that are not found elsewhere in Kordofanian.

References

↑ Lafofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lafofa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"
Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Tegem–Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger–Congo"