See Also: Kordofanian languages(encyclopedia)
Gur languages(encyclopedia)
Tai languages(encyclopedia)
Kwa languages(encyclopedia)
Kru languages(encyclopedia)
Munda languages(encyclopedia)
Mongolian languages(encyclopedia)
Mon-Khmer languages(encyclopedia)
Maya languages(encyclopedia)
Uralic languages(encyclopedia)

wretch (iou) and Kordofanian languages (sh)


wretch (iou)



wretch noun & adjective.

A. noun.
A banished person; an exile. OE-LME.
A deeply unfortunate or pitiable person or creature. Freq. as a term of commiseration. OE.
T. Gray The Wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of Pain. S. Mostyn I see my wife wants me. The poor wretch is terribly jealous. P. Carter A lonely, miserable wretch living a furtive life in a shabby room.
A vile, despicable, or reprehensible person. Freq. as a term of playful depreciation. OE.
Defoe Wretch!..look back upon a mis-spent Life. A. Helps A wretch of a pedant who knows all about tetrameters. M. Forster I am an ungrateful wretch to venture to criticise her.
A niggardly person; a miser. Now Scot. ME.
B. adjective.
= WRETCHED adjective 1. OE-L16.
= WRETCHED adjective 2, 3. Only in ME.

Kordofanian languages (sh)




Branch of the Niger-Congo language family.

It is geographically separated from the rest of the Niger-Congo Languages and is believed to represent the oldest layer of Languages in the region. The Kordofanian branch consists of some 20 Languages spoken by 250,000 to 500,000 people, mainly in the Nuba Hills of central Sudan.