Shatt language

Shatt
Shatt
Canning
Native to	Sudan
Region	Southern Sudan
Ethnicity	Shatt
Native speakers	30,000 (2014)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Daju Eastern Shatt; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Shatt Dammam;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	shj
Glottolog	shat1244
ELP	Shatt
Linguasphere	05-PEA-aa

The Shatt language is an Eastern Sudanic language of the Daju family spoken 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]

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.

External links

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[e18-1] Shatt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Boyeldieu, Pascal. 2011. The modified form of Shatt Damam nouns and its Daju cognates. Afrika und Übersee 91. 9-84.

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