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Didinga language

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Native to
  
South Sudan

Native speakers
  
60,000 (2007)

Region
  
Didinga Hills

ISO 639-3
  
did

Ethnicity
  
Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Surmic South Southwest Didinga–Narim Didinga

Not to be confused with Lango language (South Sudan) or Lango language (Uganda).

The Didinga language (’Di’dinga) is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Chukudum and Lowudo peoples of the Didinga Hills of South Sudan. It is classified as a member of the southwest branch Surmic languages (Fleming 1983). Its nearest relative is Narim.

Relevant literature

  • De Jong, N., 2001. The ideophone in Didinga. Typological studies in language 44, pp.121-138.
  • Fleming, Harold. 1983. "Surmic etymologies," in Nilotic Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples, Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, 524–555. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  • Odden, David. 1983. Aspects of Didinga phonology and morphology. Nilo-Saharan language studies, pp.148-176.

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