Dagik

Dengebu (Dagik)
Spoken in	Nuba Mountains ( Sudan )
speaker	38,000 (1982, including Ngile)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo Cordofan languages Talodi-Heiban Talodi-Masakin Dagik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dec

The Dagik (also buram , dagig , dengebu , masakin , masakin dagig , masakin gusar , reikha and thakik ; ISO 639-3 is dec), Niger-Congolese language within the Cordofan language group and belongs to the group of Talodi languages .

Together with speakers from Ngile dialect, it is spoken by a total of 38,000 people.

It is an oral-only language spoken in the province of Kordofan in the Sudanese mountains of Nuba and Mesakin. Together with the dialect Ngile, the language seems to form the subgroup Ngile-Dengebu .

Web links

• Ethnologue

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dec
2. ↑ (1982 SIL.)
3. ↑ Ethnologue