Ngile language

Ngile
Daloka
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Mesakin
Native speakers
unknown (11,700, including Dengebu cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jle
Glottolog ngil1242[2]

Ngile, also Daloka (Taloka) [a dialect], is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin / Masakin people.

References

  1. Ngile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngile". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.