Karko (language)
Karko | ||
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Spoken in |
Nuba Mountains ( Sudan ) | |
speaker | 12,986 (1984) | |
Linguistic classification |
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Official status | ||
Official language in | nowhere official language | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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ISO 639 -2 |
nub |
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ISO 639-3 |
kko |
Karko (also called Garko or Kithonirishe ) is the language of the Karko people who live in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan and are among the peoples known as " Nuba ".
Many Karko now also use the Arabic language .
Language policy
Mende Nazer , who claims to be a Karko Nuba, reports in her autobiography Sklavin that the Karko children were forbidden to use their language in school in the 1980s; instead they should have spoken Arabic and the students had been given Arabic names instead of their own.
Examples
Karko | German |
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end | gazelle |
major | Granary |
kooktane | Corn |
hawaja | Whiter |
Are kukure, are konduk dukre | "The rain is coming, too much rain" (song that is sung at the beginning of the rainy season) |
(from Mende Nazer , slave girl )