Editing Kordofanian languages (section)

== History ==
In 1963, [[Joseph Greenberg]] added them to the [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger–Congo family]], creating his Niger–Kordofanian proposal. The Kordofanian languages have not been shown to be more distantly related than other branches of Niger–Congo, however, and they have not been shown to constitute a valid group. Today, the [[Kadu languages]] are excluded, and the others are usually included in Niger–Congo proper.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(PDF) Joseph Greenberg and the Current State of Niger-Congo |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313725739_Joseph_Greenberg_and_the_Current_State_of_Niger-Congo |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231003205916/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313725739_Joseph_Greenberg_and_the_Current_State_of_Niger-Congo |archive-date=2023-10-03 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=ResearchGate |language=en}}</ref>

[[Roger Blench]] notes that the Talodi and Heiban families have the [[noun class]] systems characteristic of the [[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] core of Niger–Congo but that the two Katla languages have no trace of ever having had such a system. However, the Kadu languages and some of the Rashad languages appear to have acquired noun classes as part of a [[Sprachbund]] rather than having inherited them. Blench concludes that Talodi and Heiban are core Niger–Congo whereas Katla and Rashad form a peripheral branch along the lines of [[Mande languages|Mande]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

[[Heiban languages|Heiban]], [[Katloid languages|Katloid]], and [[Talodi languages|Talodi]] are also grouped together in an automated computational analysis ([[Automated Similarity Judgment Program|ASJP]] 4) by Müller et al. (2013).<ref name="ASJP-4">Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ''[https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]''.</ref> However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing or genetic inheritance.

[[File:Map_of_the_languages_of_the_Nuba_Mountains.svg|thumb|right|450x450px|Clickable map of the [[Languages of the Nuba Mountains|language families, subfamilies, and languages spoken in the Nuba Mountains]]. Kordofanian includes [[Kadu languages|Kadu]] and all of the [[Niger–Congo]] branches.]]