Tegali language

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Tegali
Native to Sudan
Region Nuba Hills
Ethnicity Tagale
Native speakers
unknown (44,000 including Tingal cited 1982–1984)[1]
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.

References

  1. Tegali language reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
    Tingal reference at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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