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Komuz languages

Also known as: Coman languages, Koman languages
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Komuz languages, a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family formed by a group of related languages spoken in the border area that separates Ethiopia from Sudan and South Sudan. The Komuz group consists of Koma, Twampa (Uduk), Kwama, and Opo (Opo-Shita). Another variety of Komuz, known as Gule (Anej), may be extinct because its speakers have shifted to (Sudanese) Arabic for daily communication. In his 1963 classification the American linguist Joseph Greenberg also grouped Ganza...

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