Karko language (Sudan)

Karko
	Kakenbi
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Mountains
Native speakers	7,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Astaboran Nubian Hill Nubian Karko; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kko
Glottolog	kark1256[2]

Karko (also Garko, Kaak, Karme, Kithonirishe; autonym: Kakenbi) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 7,000 people in the Karko hills, 35 km west of Dilling, including Dulman. Ethnologue reports that speakers of Karko are shifting to Sudanese Arabic.^[1]

Dialects

Karko has three dialects: Karko, Kasha and Shifir. Additionally, varieties spoken by the Ilaki on Abu Junuk to the west (by 1,000 people) and by the Tamang at El Tabaq southwest of Katla (by 800 people) may be dialects or separate languages.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Karko". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karko". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[:0-1] 1 2 3 "Karko". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karko". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.