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Sungor language

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Native to
  
Chad and Sudan

Native speakers
  
24,000 (1993 census)

Ethnicity
  
Sungor, Erenga

Dialects
  
Sungor Erenga

Region
  
western Sudan and eastern Chad

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Astaboran? Taman Tama–Sungor Sungor

Sungor (Assangori) is a language of eastern Chad and western Sudan. It is a member of the Taman language family. The majority of native speakers are Muslim and most use Chadian Arabic as a second language.

Ethnologue lists the Erenga dialect under Tama.

References

Sungor language Wikipedia