| Tegali | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Tagale |
| Native speakers | 44,000, including Tingal (1984) |
| Language family |
Niger–Congo
|
| Dialects |
Gom
Tegali
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ras |
Tegali (also spelled Tagale, Tegele, Tekele, Togole) is a Niger–Congo language in the Rashad family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan, in and around the town of Rashad. It is closely related to Tagoi.
There are two varieties, Rashad or Gom (Kom, Ngakom, Kome) and Tegali proper. Ethnologue states that they are nearly identical, and they were considered a single language in Williamson & Blench 2000, but Blench ms treats them as separate languages. The erstwhile language Tingal is a dialect of Tegali.