| Lafofa | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Lafofa |
| Native speakers | 600 (2000) |
| Language family |
Niger–Congo
|
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | laf |
Lafofa, also Tegem, is a Niger–Congo language cluster spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.
Long considered one of the Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, Blench posits that the Lafofa languages constitute a distinct branch of Niger–Congo. They share cognates with divergent Niger–Congo languages such as Ijo that are not found elsewhere in Kordofanian.