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Sokoro language

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Sokoro
Native toChad
Regioncentral
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sok
Glottologsoko1263
ELPSokoro

Sokoro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Dialects are Bedanga and Sokoro.[1] Speakers make up the majority of the population of Gogmi Canton in Melfi, Chad.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Sokoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Oxfam and Office National de Développement Rural (ONDR). 2016. Atlas de la vulnérabilité dans le Guera. Première partie: synthèse regional. 2nd edition (updated from 2013 edition). PASISAT (Projet d’Appui à l’Amélioration du Système d’Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire au Tchad).

References

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  • Benton, P. A. 1912. Notes on Some Languages of the Western Sudan. London: Oxford University Press [Reprinted under the title The Languages and Peoples of Bornu with an introduction by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. London: Frank Cass (1968)].
  • Chesley, William, and David Faris. 1994. Une enquête sociolinguistique parmi les Sokoro du Guera. N’Djaména: SIL. Manuscript.
  • Fédry, Jacques. 1971d. Quelques informations sur les langues du groupe ‘sokoro-mubi’. Chadic Newsletter 3.
  • Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2005. Notes sur le système verbal du sokoro (République du Tchad). Afrika und Übersee 88:175–186.
  • Rendinger, Général de. 1949. Contribution à l’étude des langues nègres du Centre-africain. Journal de la Société des Africanistes. 19(2). 143–194. Online: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0037-9166_1949_num_19_2_2599.