Dagik language
Dagik | |
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Dengebu | |
Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
Ethnicity | Mesakin |
Native speakers | (11,700 including Ngile cited 1984)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dec |
Glottolog | dagi1241 |
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.
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.