Kanga language
Kanga | |
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Native to | Sudan |
Region | Kordofan |
Ethnicity | Kanga |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2022)[1] |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kcp |
Glottolog | kang1288 |
ELP | Kanga |
Kanga is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Kanga is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Kadu branch spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan.
The Kufa-Lima dialect is spoken in Bilenya, Dologi, Lenyaguyox, Lima, Kilag, Kufa, Mashaish, and Toole villages, with Toole as the central village.[1]
A preliminary grammar of the Kufa-Lima variety (termed "Kufo") has been published recently.[2]
References
- ^ a b Kanga at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Mullan, Keira (2022). Nominal number and gender in Kufo: A description of its derivational and inflectional systems (Honours thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/G63X-DT44.