Sungor | |
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Assangori | |
Spoken in | Chad and Sudan |
Region | western Sudan and eastern Chad |
Ethnicity | Sungor, Erenga |
Native speakers | 23,500 (1993 census) |
Language family | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sjg |
Linguasphere | 05-PEA-aa |
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.