Kadugli language

Not to be confused with Miri language.
Kadugli
Central Kadu
Native to Sudan
Region Kordofan
Ethnicity Kadugli, Katcha, Damba, Tumma
Native speakers
75,000 (2004)[1]
Kadu
  • Central

    • Kadugli
Dialects
  • Kadugli–Damba
  • Katcha
  • Miri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xtc
Glottolog katc1249[2]

Kadugli, also Katcha-Kadugli-Miri or Central Kadu, is a Kadu language or dialect cluster spoken in Kordofan. Stevenson treats the varieties as dialects of one language, and they share a single ISO code, though Schadeberg (1989) treats them as separate languages.

There are five commonly cited varieties. Three of them are rather divergent, on the verge of being distinct languages:

However, they share a single orthography and use the same literacy materials (Ethnologue).

Of the two other commonly cited varieties, Damba is somewhat closer to Kadugli, while Tumma appears to be a (sub)dialect of Katcha.

External links

References

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


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