Schilluk (language)
Schilluk ( dhok Chollo ) | ||
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South Sudan | |
speaker | approx. 175,000 (as of 1982) | |
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Schilluk (own name dhok Chollo , Dhɔg Cɔllɔ in African orthography) is a West Nilotic language belonging to the subgroup of the Luo languages .
It is spoken by the Shilluk ( Chollo ) people in the southern Sudanese state of A'ali an-Nil .
literature
- JA Heasty: English-Shilluk, Shilluk-English dictionary . Dolieb Hill, 1974 (reprinted 1937).
- Diedrich Westermann: The Shilluk people: their language and folklore . Negro University Press, Westport, Connecticut 1970 (reprinted from 1912).