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Keiga Jirru language

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Native to
  
Sudan

ISO 639-3
  
keg (shared with Tese)

Region
  
Nuba Hills

Linguist list
  
q8h – Doni

Native speakers
  
(1,400 with Tese cited 1971)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Temein Keiga Jirru

Keiga Jirru is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Hills of Sudan.

There is no listing in Ethnologue, as it was conflated with the related Tese language.

References

Keiga Jirru language Wikipedia