Region Nuba Hills, Sudan ISO 639-3 jle | Ethnicity Mesakin Glottolog ngil1242 | |
Native speakers (11,700, including Dengebu cited 1984) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Talodi–Heiban
Talodi
Masakin
Ngile | ||
Ngile, also known as Daloka, Taloka, Darra, Masakin, Mesakin [a dialect], is a Niger–Congo unwritten language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin / Masakin people.
References
Ngile language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA