Totscho
| Totscho (Totcho) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Sudan | |
| speaker | 3,800 (1977) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
taz |
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The language Totschoskiot or Totschoisch and Totcho is a Kordofan language that is threatened with extinction and is spoken in Sudan .
It belongs to the Talodi-Heiban language group within the Niger-Congo language family . The language has 3,800 speakers. More and more speakers are teaching their children Arabic alone, as Arabic enjoys greater prestige on the part of the Islamic majority society and non-Arabic languages are banned. Nevertheless, the language uses the Latin script .