Didinga language

Not to be confused with Lango language (South Sudan) or Lango language (Uganda).
Didinga
Lango
Native to South Sudan
Region Didinga Hills
Ethnicity Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo)
Native speakers
 60,000 (2007)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 did
Glottolog didi1258[2]

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.

The New Testament in the Didinga language was dedicated in March 2018.

References

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

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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