| has gloss | eng: The Rashad languages form a small language family in the Nuba Hills of Sudan. Part of an erstwhile Kordofanian proposal, they are of uncertain position within the Niger-Congo family. It was at first thought that they shared the characteristic morphology of Niger-Congo, such as the noun-class system. However, only the Tagoi branch has noun classes, and Blench remarks that it appears to have been borrowed. Thus he classifies Rashad as a divergent branch of Niger-Congo outside the Atlantic-Congo core. A similar situation holds for another Kordofanian family, Katla; these are not closely related to Rashad. |