Daju languages

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The Daju languages are a subgroup of the East Sudanese branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family spoken in the east of the Republic of Chad and the west of the Republic of Sudan .

According to Bender (2000), these include:

  • Daju (approx. 23,000 speakers)
  • Shatt (approx.15,000 speakers)
  • Liguri (approx. 2,500 speakers)
  • Nyala-Lagowa (approx. 80,000 speakers)
  • Nyolgé (Nyalgulgulé) (approx. 1,000 speakers)
  • Mongo (approx. 31,000 speakers)
  • Sila (approx. 38,000 speakers)
  • Beygo (extinct)


literature

  • M. Lionel Bender: Nilo-Saharan . In: Bernd Heine u. Derek Nurse (Ed.): African Languages. An introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 43-73.
  • Robin Thelwall: Lexicostatistical subgrouping and lexical reconstruction of the Daju group . In: Tilo C. Schadeberg u. M. Lionel Bender (Ed.): Nilo-Saharan. Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium (Leiden 1980) . Foris, Dordrecht u. Cinnaminson 1981, pp. 167-184.

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