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Päri
Päri
Lokoro
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Upper Nile State
Ethnicity	Pari
Native speakers	79,000 (2017)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Kir–Abbaian? Nilotic Western Luo Northern Päri; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lkr
Glottolog	pari1256

Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment,^[2] which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).^[3]^[4]

References

^ Päri at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Anderson, T. (1988). "Ergativity in Päri, a Nilotic OVS language". Lingua. 75 (4): 289–324. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(88)90008-3., cited in Dixon, R.M.W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. p. 44. ISBN 0-521-44898-0.
^ Dimmendaal, G. (2010). "Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan". Journal of African Linguistics and Languages. 31: 13–46. doi:10.1515/jall.2010.003.
^ König, C. (2008). Case in Africa. Oxford University Press.

Andersen, Torben (2000). "Anywa and Pari. Part 2: A Morphosyntactic Comparison". Afrika und Übersee. 83 (1): 65–87.
Andersen, Torben (1999). "Anywa and Päri, I: a phonological and morphophonological comparison (review article)". Afrika und Übersee. 82 (2): 251–271.
Andersen, Torben (1989). "The Päri Vowel System with an Internal Reconstruction of Its Historical Development". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 11 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1515/jall.1989.11.1.1.
Andersen, Torben (1988). "Consonant alternation in the verbal morphology of Päri". Afrika und Übersee. 71 (1): 63–113.
Andersen, Torben (1988). "Downstep in Päri: the tone system of a Western Nilotic language". Studies in African Linguistics. 19 (3): 261–315. doi:10.32473/sal.v19i3.107458.
König, Christa (2006). "Marked Nominative in Africa". Studies in Language. 30 (4): 655–732. doi:10.1075/sl.30.4.02kon.
Simeoni, Antonio (1978). Santandrea, Stefano (ed.). Päri: a Luo language of southern Sudan, small grammar and vocabulary. Museum Combonianum. Vol. 34. Bologna, Italy: E.M.I.
Storch, Anne (2005). The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic. Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation. Vol. 21. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 9783896451392. OCLC 68629247.