Dengebu language

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Dengebu
Dagik
Region	Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity	Mesakin
Native speakers	unknown (unknown; 38,000, including Ngile cited 1982)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Talodi Masakin Dengebu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dec`

Dengebu, also Dagik, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin / Masakin people.

References

↑ Dengebu reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

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