Ngile language

Ngile
Daloka
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Mesakin
Native speakers
(11,700, including Dengebu cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jle
Glottolog ngil1242[2]

Ngile, also known as Daloka, Taloka, Darra, Masakin, Mesakin [a dialect], is a Niger–Congo unwritten language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin / Masakin people.

References

  1. Ngile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngile". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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