Shatt language
| Shatt | |
|---|---|
| ìkkɨ̀ cánnìñ | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | South Kordofan |
| Ethnicity | Shatt |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2014)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | shj |
| Glottolog | shat1244 |
| ELP | Shatt |
| Linguasphere | 05-PEA-aa |
 Shatt is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Shatt language is a Daju language of the Eastern Daju family spoken by the Shatt people in the Shatt Hills (part of the Nuba Mountains) southwest of Kaduqli in South Kurdufan province in southern Sudan.
Villages are Shatt Daman, Shatt Safia, and Shatt Tebeldia (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Names
The designation "Shatt" is an Arabic word meaning "dispersed" and is applied to several distinct groups in the Nuba Mountains. "Caning" is their own name for themselves. Speakers refer to their language as ìkkɨ̀ cánnìñ ('mouth, language').[2]
Grammar
The grammar in this section is primarily based on the Caning Grammar Book (Second Edition 2017).[3]
Morphology
References
- ^ Shatt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Boyeldieu, Pascal. 2011. The modified form of Shatt Damam nouns and its Daju cognates. Afrika und Übersee 91. 9-84.
- ^ Alfira, David Abbi; Kafi, Timothy Kuku; Kaki, Hassan Kuwa; Hasan, Ali Alaliim; Anjo, Anjo Kuku; Jas, Dayan Kuku; Sarukh, Sadik Kafi (2017). Written at South Sudan. "Caning Grammar Book". Webonary Caning Dictionary. Juba: Caning Language Committee and Sudan Workshop Programme. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
External links
- Ethnologue Language map for Nuba Hills region of Sudan
- Huffman, Steve. "Language Map of Sudan" (PDF). www.worldgeodatasets.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017.
- Caning (Shatt) basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database