Dagik language
Dagik, also Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
| Dagik | |
|---|---|
| Dengebu | |
| 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 |
It is spoken in Buram, Kamlela, Reikha, Taballa, and Tosari villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).[2]
References
- Dagik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.
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