Mid-size grammatical sketch of !Ora, together with some text samples and a representative vocabulary. Based on the author's personal fieldwork as well as a selection of earlier sources.
Wuras 1920
Wuras, C. F.
Vokabular der Korana-Sprache. Herausgegeben und mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen von Walther Bourquin.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
!Ora
kkh-kor
A small vocabulary of !Ora; transcription quality is notably less reliable than in Meinhof's monograph, but the source is important for including some material not attested by Meinhof, as well as independently confirming some of Meinhof's data.
Haacke & Eiseb 2002
Haacke, Wilfrid H. G.; Eiseb, Eliphas
A Khoekhoegowab Dictionary (With an English-Khoekhoegowab Index).
Gamsberg Macmillan.
Nama
kkh-nam
Huge dictionary that covers most of the dialects of Khoekhoegowab, including Nama, Damara, Haiǀǀom and others. All words are given with their full tonal characteristics, for the first time in Nama history.
Krönlein & Rust 1969
Krönlein, J. G.; Rust, F.
Nama Wörterbuch.
Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
Nama
kkh-nam
The oldest dictionary of Nama, originally published in 1889 by J. G. Krönlein; edited and expanded more than half a century later by F. Rust. This was the largest Nama dictionary in existence before Haacke and Eiseb's collective effort made it into a document of historical importance. Still, the dictionary remains useful in that it captures a hundred year old picture of Nama, including some archaisms that would no longer be in use by the end of the XXth century.
Otero 2015
Otero, Manuel A.
Komo-Amharic-English Dictionary.
Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia.
Komo
kom-kmo
A representative dictionary of the Komo language (although containing some significant gaps, such as most auxiliary words, and without any prosodic markings).
Leyew 2005
Leyew, Zelealem
Gwama, a little-known language of Ethiopia: a sketch of its grammar and lexicon.
In: ELRC Working Papers, 1/1, pp. 1-52.
Kwama
kom-kwm
A short phonological and grammatical sketch, based on the author's own fieldwork with speakers in Addis Ababa. Contains a small vocabulary of the language.
Bender 19833
Bender, M. Lionel
Proto-Koman Phonology and Lexicon.
In: Afrika und Übersee, 66, pp. 259-297.
Kwama; Opo; Komo; Uduk; Gule
kom-kwm; kom-opo; kom-kmo; kom-udu; kom-gul
A first attempt at reconstructing the phonology and select basic and cultural lexicon of Proto-Koman. The paper contains rich lexical material on most of the known Koman languages, collected by the author himself, although the quality of notation is far from ideal.
Wedekind 2002
Wedekind, Klaus; Wedekind, Charlotte
Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Asosa-Begi-Ko\-mosha Area. Part II.
SIL International.
Kwama; Begi Mao; Komo
kom-kwm; kom-beg; kom-kmo
A standard type SIL report on an area populated by Koman speakers. Contains representative wordlists for two dialects of Kwama (Northern Kwama, or Kwama proper; Begi Mao) and on one dialect of Komo.
Silfhout 2013
Silfhout, Marijke van
Opuo: Towards a phonology.
Bachelor thesis, Leiden University.
Opo
kom-opo
A detailed description of the phonology of Opo based on the author's own fieldwork. Accompanied with a representative vocabulary of the language, for now the single largest collection of lexical data on Opo.
Beam & Cridland 1970
Beam, Mary S.; Cridland, A. Elizabeth
Uduk-English Dictionary.
University of Khartoum.
Uduk
kom-udu
A very detailed and informative dictionary of the Uduk language, with illustrative examples and thorough prosodic notation of each entry.
Killian 2015
Killian, Don
Topics in Uduk Phonology and Morpho\-syntax. Ph.D. dissertation
University of Helsinki.
Uduk
kom-udu
A detailed description of the phonology and grammar of Uduk, well illustrated by lexical and syntactic examples and containing several examples of glossed texts.
Thelwall 1983b
Thelwall, Robin
Twampa phonology.
In: Nilo-Saharan Language Studies. Ed. by Lionel M. Bender. Michigan: East Lansing, pp. 323-335.
Uduk
kom-udu
Brief sketch of Uduk (= Twampa) phonology, well illustrated by lexical examples from the author's own fieldwork; may be used as an additional control source.
Meinhof 1944
Meinhof, Carl
Das Heiban in Kordofan.
In: Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen-Sprachen, 34, pp. 94-130.
Ebang
krd-eba
A sketch of Heiban (Ebang) phonology and grammar. Well illustrated with lexical material, but no separate texts or vocabularies included.
Quint 2006
Quint, Nicolas
Phonologie de la langue koalibe. Dialecte réré (Soudan).
Paris: L'Harmattan.
Koalib, Rere
krd-rer
Detailed description of all the aspects of the phonology and phonetics of the Rere dialect of Heiban, illustrated by numerous examples.
Henderson 1997
Henderson, Eugenie J. A.
Bwe Karen dictionary. With texts and English-Karen word list.
London: School of Oriental and African studies.
Karen, Bwe
krn-bwe
An extensive dictionary of Bwe Karen, with most words accompanied by examples of usage, as well as a large collection of illustrative texts published in a separate volume. Essentially the only source of linguistic knowledge on this language so far, but a nearly exhaustive one from a lexicographical point of view.
Shee 2008
Shee, Naw Hsar
A descriptive grammar of Geba Karen.
M.A. thesis. Payap University.
Karen, Geba
krn-geb
A detailed grammatical description of the Geba Karen language, including examples of texts collected by the author and a list of basic words.
Solnit 1997
Solnit, David B.
Eastern Kayah Li.
University of Hawaii Press.
Kayah Li, Eastern
krn-kli
A detailed grammatical description of the Eastern Kayah Li language. Includes some samples of texts collected by the author and a brief vocabulary.
Kirkland & Dawkins 2007
Kirkland, Cortney; Dawkins, Erin
A Sociolinguistic Survey of Eastern Kayah Li in Thailand.
Thailand: Payap University.
Kayah Li, Eastern; Kayah Li, Western
krn-kli; krn-wkl
This sociolinguistic report on several varieties of Kayah Li includes a 155-item comparative wordlist elicited by the authors from two dialects of Eastern Kayah Li (Huai Phung and Huang Chai Kham villages), as well as a separate wordlist on Eastern Kayah Li and another on Western Kayah Li, taken from data collected by Fraser Bennett in 1991-1992.
Wai 2013
Wai Lin Aung
A descriptive grammar of Kayah Monu. M.A. Thesis.
Payap University, Chiang Mai.
Kayah Monu
krn-mnu
A detailed, but not too lexically rich grammatical description of Kayah Monu that can nevertheless be used as a control source in some cases.
Myar 2004
Myar Doo Myar Reh
A phonological comparison of selected Karenic language varieties of Kayah State. M.A. Thesis.
Payap University, Chiang Mai.
Kayah Monu; Brek Kayaw; Yintale
krn-mnu; krn-bre; krn-yin
A detailed phonetic description and comparison of several varieties of Karen, including Kayah, Kayah Monu (Monumanaw), Brek (Bre) Kayaw, and Yintale. Includes 400+ item lexical wordlists for each of the described varieties.
