Datooga (language)
Datooga | ||
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Tanzania | |
speaker | approx. 88,000 | |
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Datooga is a South Nilotic ( Nilosaharan ) language spoken by approximately 88,000 people in Tanzania . The speakers are also called Datooga . The dialects of Datooga are sometimes so different that mutual understanding is difficult.
Linguistic characteristics
It is a tonal language with the basic word order verb-subject-object .
literature
- Franz Rottland: The South Nilotic languages: description, comparison and reconstruction . Reimer, Berlin 1982.
- Franz Rottland: Southern Nilotic (with an outline of Datooga) . In: M. Lionel Bender (Ed.): Nilo-Saharan Language Studies . Michigan State University, 1983. pp. 208-238.