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Tennet

A language of Sudan

ISO 639-3: tex

Population	4,000 (1994 SIL).
Region	South, Equatoria Province, Lopit Hills, northeast of Torit. 5 villages.
Language map	Sudan
Alternate names	Tenet
Classification	Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Eastern, Surmic, South, Southwest, Didinga-Murle, Tennet
Language use	All domains. All ages. Strong sense of Tenet ethnic identity. Most also use Lopit [lpx], Toposa [toq], or Otuho [lot].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 1% Arabic [arb]. Motivation for literacy is high. Grammar. Bible portions: 1994–2001.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	They have a number of Lopit loanwords. VSO; genitives, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question word final; 4 suffixes; word order distinguishes given and new information; noun affixes indicate case; verb affixes mark person, number; agreement obligatory; passives; antipassives; causatives; comparatives; (C)(G)V(:)(C) or (C)V(G)(C); tonal.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ARENSEN, Jonathan E.; DE JONG, Nicolaas; RANDAL, Scott; UNSETH, Peter, authors. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."

RANDAL, Allison, author. 2000. "Does Tennet have postpositions?."

RANDAL, Scott, author. 1998. "A grammatical sketch of Tennet."

RANDAL, Scott, author. 2000. "Tennet’s ergative origins."