A detailed grammatical description of the Eastern Kayah Li language. Includes some samples of texts collected by the author and a brief vocabulary.
LEDb
Starostin, Sergei A.
Lezgian Etymological Database.
Online database.
Udi, Nizh
lez-udn
Computerized version of the Proto-Lezgian corpus, available at http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?flags=eygtnnl. Includes some Proto-Lezgian etymologies (mostly basic lexicon items) that have not been included in [NCED] due to their lack of external cognates in other branches of North Caucasian.
NCED
Starostin, Sergei A.; Nikolayev, Sergei L.
A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary.
Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, 1994. Reprint in 3 vols.: Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, 2007.
Proto-Nakh
nah
Monumental etymological dictionary of the North Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian, a.k.a. Northeast Caucasian + Abkhaz-Adyghe, a.k.a. Northwest Caucasian) language family. In addition to approximately 2000 roots, reliably or tentatively reconstructed for Proto-North Caucasian, also provides intermediate reconstructions for the protolanguages of the daughter branches: Nakh, Avar-Andian, Tsezian, Dargwa, Lezghian, Abkhaz-Adyghe. Tables of correspondences and detailed notes are given in the introduction. All etymologies also available online on the StarLing database server, at http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?flags=eygtnnl.
http://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/caucpref.pdf
NED
Starostin, Sergei A.; Nikolayev, Sergei L.
Nakh Etymological Database.
Online database.
Proto-Nakh
nah
Computerized version of the Proto-Nakh corpus. Includes some Proto-Nakh etymologies (mostly basic lexicon items) that have not been included in [NCED] due to their lack of external cognates in other branches of North Caucasian. Only numbers of etymologies are referenced, since the source lacks pagination.
Description of the San Giorgio dialect with texts and dictionary.
Stevenson 1957
Stevenson, Roland C.
A survey of the phonetics and grammatical structure of the Nuba Mountains languages.
In: Afrika und Übersee,41, pp. 27-65, 117-152, 171-196.
Ama; Afitti; Temein; Doni
nyi-ama; nyi-afi; tem-tmn; tem-don; kat-ktl
This publication, among other things, provides a brief, but informative sketch of the grammars of Nyimang-Dinik, Temein-Jirru, and Katla-Tima, well illustrated by lexical material.
Stevenson 1983a
Stevenson, Roland C.
Temein Work Sheets.
Ms.
Temein
tem-tmn
Several hundred basic lexicon items for the Temein language, recorded by Roland Stevenson and scanned by Roger Blench. Most of this data remains officially unpublished.
Several hundred basic lexicon items for the Keiga Jirru, or Doni, language, recorded by Roland Stevenson and scanned by Roger Blench. Most of this data remains officially unpublished.
Several hundred basic lexicon items for the Teisei umm Danab, or Tese, language, recorded by Roland Stevenson and scanned by Roger Blench. Most of this data remains officially unpublished.
Roland Stevenson's Nyimang and Dinik Lexicon. Ed. by M. Lionel Bender.
In: Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 63, pp. 103-120.
Ama; Afitti
nyi-ama; nyi-afi
A list of more than 500 lexical items for Nyimang and Dinik, edited by M. Lionel Bender after Roland Stevenson's notes with some transcriptional unifications.
Stevenson 2005
Stevenson, Roland C.
Dictionary of Katcha.
Ms.
Katcha
kad-kat
On-site annotation: "The dictionary is based on a typescript deriving from the papers of Roland Stevenson and was typed by Andrew and Janet Persson of SIL. Editing and formatting by Roger Blench. Tones not marked."
Tira and Otoro: Two Kordofanian Grammars. Ed. by Thilo C. Schadeberg.
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Utoro; Tiro
hei-uto; hei-tir
Grammars of two Heiban languages, compiled by R. C. Stevenson based on his own fieldwork in the Nuba Mountains, in 1942 and 1943 respectively. Both grammars include extensive illustrative material, examples of texts, and short glossaries with paradigmatic information on lexemes.
Stirtz 2012
Stirtz, Timothy
A grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan language of Sudan.
Utrecht: LOT.
Gaam
jeb-gaa
Detailed grammatical description of Gaam, well illustrated with lexical and syntactic examples.
Stokhof 1975
Stokhof, W. A. L.
Preliminary Notes on the Alor and Pantar Languages.
Canberra: Australian National University.
Abui, Atimelang
alo-ati
117-item wordlists for various languages of the Alor and Pantar islands, collected during Stokhof's fielworks 1972, 1974. Includes Abui Atimelang (p. 53) and Abui Makadai (p. 54) wordlists.
Story & Naish 1973
Story, Gillian L.; Naish, Constance M.
Tlingit verb dictionary.
Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska.
Tlingit
nde-tli
English – Northern Tlingit and Northern Tlingit – English verb dictionary, illustrated by examples and accompained by a grammar sketch.
Story 1999
Story, Robert
Kʼuǀhaːsi Manuscript. Ed. by Anthony Traill.
Khoisan Forum Working Paper No. 13.
ǀHaasi
kwi-haa
Full reproduction of the brief wordlist, grammar notes, and phrases in the ǀHaasi language as recovered from Robert Story's original manuscript of 1937; accompanied with extensive notes by A. Traill, including noteworthy considerations on how to interpret Story's phonetic notation.
Tanaka 1978
Tanaka, Jiro
A San Vocabulary of the Central Kalahari: Gǀǀana and Gǀwi Dialects.
Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
ǀGui; ǀǀGana
kho-gwi; kho-gan
As of now, the only representative dictionary of both ǀǀGana and ǀGwi, unfortunately, marred by extremely poor quality phonetic transcription, reducing it to the status of an auxiliary source.
Thelwall 1977
Thelwall, Robin
A Birgid vocabulary list and its links with Daju..
In: Gedenkschrift Gustav Nachtigall 1874-1974. Ed. by H. Gansl\-mayr & H. Jungraithmayr. Bremen, pp. 197-210.
Birgid
nub-bir
The only available wordlist for the extinct Birgid language, collected by the author in December 1969.
Thelwall 1978
Thelwall, Robin
Lexicostatistical relations between Nubian, Daju and Dinka..
In: Etudes Nubiennes. Colloque de Chantilly, 2-6 Jui\-l\-let 1975, Kairo, pp. 265-286.
Kadaru; Debri
nub-kad; nub-deb
This comparative paper includes wordlists on several varieties of Nubian, including two Hill Nubian languages, Kadaru and Debri, data on which is taken by the author from the unpublished manuscripts of R. C. Stevenson.
Thelwall 1981a
Thelwall, Robin
The Daju Language Group. Systematic Phonetics, Lexicostatistics and Lexical Reconstruction.
School of Humanities of the New University of Ulster. D. Phil.
The single most detailed historical-comparative analysis of the Daju languages so far, based almost exclusively upon the author's own field data. Contains a list of Proto-Daju lexical reconstructions together with the comparative data from attested languages, as well as lexicostatistical wordlists.
