Ngile language
Ngile | |
---|---|
Daloka | |
Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
Ethnicity | Mesakin |
Native speakers | (11,700, including Dengebu cited 1984)[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
jle |
Glottolog |
ngil1242 [2] |
Ngile, also known as Daloka, Taloka, Darra, Masakin, Mesakin [a dialect], is a Niger–Congo unwritten language in the Talodi family spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
References
- ↑ Ngile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngile". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.