Warnang
| Warnang | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nuba Mountains ( Sudan ) | |
| speaker | 1,100 (1956) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
wrn |
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Warnang (also called Werni ; ISO 639-3: wrn ) is an endangered Cordofan language . It was spoken in 1956 by around 1,100 people from the Nuba people of the Werni on remote hills between Talodi and the White Nile in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan .
It is one of the Heiban languages , a subgroup of the Kordofan languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo language family . Together with the Ko it forms the subgroup Ost-Heiban.
As more and more Werni are being urged to convert to Islam and learn the associated high-level Arabic language, the reputation of Warnang is falling. By marrying the Werni with Arabs and the associated assimilation into the Arab majority society, the Warnang threatens to die out, since the descendants only learn Arabic in school and the Warnang itself has no official status or minority protection.