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 |
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 )