Case morphology in Majang

Abstract

Majang is a Nilo-Saharan language under East Sudanic Sub-branch in the Surmic group.It is spoken in the boarder of the south western part of Ethiopia. The aim of this researchis to describe the case morphology of Majang. It is a descriptive analysis of Majang casemarking inflectional morphemes. The study is based on qualitative data gathered fromnative speakers of Majang. The data were collected from the native speakers of Majang,based on their day to day communicative acts and from various texts. By participatingfive male speakers of Majang, he collected, recorded, arranged, described and analyzeddata. To check the authenticity of the data, the researcher used other consultants who arenative speakers of Majang and have very good command of Amharic and fair commandof English. As the result reveals, in Majang there are about seven types of case markingmorphemes: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, locative, instrumental, and ablative.These cases seem shared characteristics in other Surmic languages. The finding impliesthat Majang has many morphological case markers in relation to other EthiopianLanguages.