all Dinka languages. Recently Akutmɛ̈t Latueŋ Thuɔŋjäŋ (the Dinka Language Development Association) has proposed a unified written grammar of Dinka. The...
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Nilotic language and part of the Luo language group, the Burun languages are thought by linguist Roger Blench as a fourth subgroup of Nilotic. The Dinka-Nuer...
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Nilotic peoples (section Languages)
southwestern Kenya, northern Tanzania, and southwestern Ethiopia, it includes the Dinka-Nuer languages, Luo languages, and the Burun languages. Dinka–Nuer-Atwot...
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languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga Western Nilotic languages such as Luo, Nuer and Dinka Before Greenberg's reclassification, Nilotic was used to...
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ISO 639 macrolanguage (redirect from Macro-language)
the ISO 639-3 language code for Dinka. There are five individual language codes assigned: dib – South Central Dinka dik – Southwestern Dinka dip – Northeastern...
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the Dinka–Nuer. The Southern Luo varieties are mutually intelligible, and apart from ethnic identity they might be considered a single language.[citation...
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Area, South Sudan, as well as parts of southwestern Ethiopia. They have also been referred as Beir by the Dinka and as Jebe by the Luo and Nuer, among...
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Demographics of South Sudan (section Dinka people)
of Dinka. Both peoples speak one of the Nilo-Saharan languages and are closely related linguistically. Sixty four languages are standard language in South...
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of southern Sudan, after the Dinka and Nuer. Their language is called Dhøg Cøllø, dhøg being the Shilluk word for language and mouth. It belongs to the...
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languages are Kanuri, Fur, Songhay, Nobiin and the widespread Nilotic family, which includes the Luo, Dinka and Maasai. Most Nilo-Saharan languages are...
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