Sungor language

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Sungor
Assangori
Spoken in: Chad and Sudan 
Region: western Sudan and eastern Chad
Total speakers: approximately 38,000 (1993)
Language family: Nilo-Saharan
 Eastern Sudanic
  Western Eastern Sudanic
   Taman
    Tama-Sungor
     Sungor
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ssa
ISO 639-3: sjg

The Sungor language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in western Sudan and eastern Chad. Primarily it is spoken in Chad. It is a member of the Taman language group of the Western branch of Nilo-Saharan. The majority of native speakers are Muslim and most use Chadian Arabic as a second language.

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