Koalib (language)
| Koalib | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nuba Mountains ( Sudan ) | |
| speaker | 44,000 (in 1984) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kib |
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Koalib (also called Kwalib , Abri , Lgalige , Nirere, and Rere ) is a Niger-Congo language of the Heiban language group spoken in Sudan .
The peoples of the Koalib-Nuba , the Turum and the Umm Heitan speak this language.
Today the language is written with the Latin alphabet , but it also contains special characters of its own. It shares the tail R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages and uses a letter similar to the at sign (@) when writing Arabic loanwords . The Unicode standard includes the R WITH TAIL at the code points U + 027D (lowercase) and U + 2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode consortium refused to encode the at sign as a separate orthographic letter. However, SIL International maintains a registration of the Private Use Area code points, in which U + F247 LATIN SMALL LETTER AT and U + F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT. Since February 15, 2013, with version 6.2a of this list, however, these letters are marked as "deprecated".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ethnologue report for language code: kib, accessed on April 12, 2010.
- ↑ Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (Oct. 12, 2009) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a . SIL International . pp. 59-60. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ Charis SIL font documentation, accessed April 12, 2010.
- ^ Lorna Evans: SIL Corporate PUA Assignments. SIL International, February 15, 2013, accessed April 13, 2013 .