Dengebu language

Dengebu
Dagik
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Mesakin
Native speakers
(11,700 including Ngile cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dec
Glottolog dagi1241[2]

Dengebu, also Dagik, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

References

  1. Dengebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dagik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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