Beli language (South Sudan)

The Beli people are mainly found in South Sudan, a region southeast of Rumbek.

The language serves as an important means of communication within the community, and it is used to transmit cultural knowledge and traditions from one generation to the next.

The area is characterized by flat plains with granitoid rocks and has a rich savannah in the east and tropical equatoria in the west, which allows for extensive agricultural activities.

The Jur (Beli & Modo) are sedentary agriculturalists who practice shifting cultivation and raise crops such as sorghum, millet, beans, cassava, groundnuts, and simsim (Sesame).

Their society is organized into kinships, clans, and families and has elaborate customs and traditions.

Jur Beli is a Nilo-Saharan language of western central Sudan in the Bongo-Baka group.

In South Sudan, a region southeast of Rumbek is home to 65,000 Jur Beli speakers[2] (Lewis et al. 2013).

These phonemes can be found in various positions within words and play an important role in the syllable structure of the language.

A Grammar of Jur Beli: A Western Nilotic Language of South Sudan.

This means that words in Jur Beli language are typically made up of a sequence of syllables, each beginning with a consonant and ending with a vowel.

[8] It's worth noting that this is a general pattern in the Jur Beli language, but there may be exceptions to this rule.

In the Jur Beli language, nouns are words that refer to people, places, things, or ideas.

In the sentences on the left below, ma ꞌmeꞌ receives the action nji ̱ꞌsaw` [11] Possessor pronouns mean to own or possess something.

In languages like Jur Beli, tone is used to distinguish between words that would otherwise be identical in terms of their sound.

Example: This “nate” sentence, which repeats information, slows down the narrative to demonstrate the relevance of what follows next.

Kidi begins a clause with fresh information rather than reiterating previously stated material.

Below are verb forms of le – “dig” in the table[24] (pg 32) book1: Adjectives can be used to describe the quantity, quality, or state of the noun or pronoun.

Additionally, is an example of how the term tɔ can be used as singular and plural indefinite adjective as shown in table below:[26] A clause is a grammatical structure that typically contains a subject and a verb.

A clause typically has a subject, which is the noun or pronoun that performs the action described by the verb.

Common order of parts of a clause → Subject – Verb – Object – Adverb – Prepositional phrase.

In this clause, the adverb "jënä" (today) provides information about when the action "amaa̱" (happened) occurred.

Adverbs and prepositions in a clause can give additional information about the verb, such as the time, place, reason, or way the action is performed.