Lango language (Sudan)
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Lango | ||
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Spoken in: | Sudan | |
Total speakers: | 20,000 (1987) | |
Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo Lango |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | — | |
ISO 639-3: | lno | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
This article is about the Lango language in Sudan. For other uses, see Lango (disambiguation).
Lango (or Langgo) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken by the Lango people, who live in the south of Sudan, in Equatoria Province, Torit District. It had approximately 20,000 speakers in 1987. It is described as part of a Lotuxo subfamily of a Lotuxo-Teso branch of Eastern Nilotic by Ethnologue.
"Lango" may also refer to a different, Western Nilotic language in Uganda, and to another Eastern Nilotic variety spoken in Sudan, Didinga.