Daju languages
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.