📄 #New #Publication! Jolin, Armel. 2025. “Tonal features in Shilluk”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 165-191.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

☎️ On tones, subtonal features and tone underspecification

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/jolin-tonal-features-in-shilluk/

📄 #New #Publication! Faust, Noam & Bien Dobui. 2025. “A report on definite and indefinite relativizers in Nuer”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 151-164.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

Ⓜ️ On definite markers on Nuer nouns

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/faustdohui-a-report-on-definite-and-indefinite-relativizers-in-nuer/

📄 #New #Publication! Payne, Doris L. 2025. “Final consonants in Maa”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 135-150.

🌍 From our #SpecialIssue on #Nilotic #languages.

On #coda, #epenthesis, #deletion, and challenges to native speaker intuition 🤯

#OpenAccess #Phonology
https://radical.cnrs.fr/payne-final-consonants-in-maa/

🌍 Nilotic languages (named in reference to the Nile River) are a group of related languages spoken in #Africa across a wide area spanning from South Sudan to Tanzania.

💌 Radical special issue on #nilotic #languages ongoing!

Already 3 papers out, more to come...

https://radical.cnrs.fr/8-issues-in-nilotic-morphophonology-analysis-and-reconstruction/

#8

Issues in Nilotic Morphophonology: Analysis and Reconstruction Monich, Irina. 2025. “Remarks on the distribution of post-consonantal glides in Nuer”. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 1-57. Kießl…

🎉 #NewPublication on glides in a protostage of Dinka-Nuer, a #Nilotic #language.

📰 Flego, S. 2025. Reconstructing Dinka-Nuer consonant-glide-vowel sequences using language-internal evidence from Agar Dinka. Radical: A Journal of Phonology, 8, 83-134.

🔗 https://radical.cnrs.fr/flego-reconstructing-dinka-nuer-consonant-glide-vowel-sequences-using-language-internal-evidence-from-agar-dinka/

✨ Enjoy ! ✨

[FLEGO] Reconstructing Dinka-Nuer consonant-glide-vowel sequences using language-internal evidence from Agar Dinka

(Reviewers: Robert Ladd and Mirella Blum) Download paper Abstract : In this paper, I carry out internal reconstruction of consonant -glidevowel sequences for a diachronic stage preceding modern Din…

But LEGO's model does not stop at the pyramid - it also includes a (rather) lush #Nilotic landscape with boats and an indicated #harbour.

Which actually (although taking some liberties in geography here) is quite on point:

https://www.aeraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AG15_1_2.pdf