Dengebu language
| Dengebu | |
|---|---|
| Dagik | |
| Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Mesakin |
Native speakers | (11,700 including Ngile cited 1984)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dec |
| Glottolog |
dagi1241[2] |
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 at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dagik". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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