noting little evidence for it being part of Nilo-Saharan.

Blench (2017) lists the following similarities among Shabo, Gumuz, and Koman lexical forms.

The comparison with reconstructed languages of the Surmic and Koman branch as well as three languages from the Gumuz branch shows slight phonological similarity for the first person singular of Proto-Southwest Surmic and the probable ancestor of the Gumuz languages but additional information is lacking

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