Sungor language
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Sungor Assangori |
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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 |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | ssa | |
ISO 639-3: | sjg | |
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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.