Kadaru language

Kadaru
Kodhin
Native to Sudan
Region Nuba Mountains
Ethnicity Kadaru people
Native speakers
 25,000 (2013)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kdu
Glottolog kada1282[2]

Kadaru (also Kadaro, Kadero, Kaderu, Kodhin, Kodhinniai, Kodoro, Tamya) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 25,000 people in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami. It is closely related to Ghulfan, with which it forms the Kadaru-Ghulfan subgroup of Hill Nubian.

Dialects

Ethnologue reports that there are six dialects spoken by six clan groups living on six separate hills: Kadaru (Kodur), Kururu (Tagle), Kafir (Ka’e), Kurtala (Ngokra), Dabatna (Kaaral) and Kuldaji (Kendal). The Western form used by the Berko people at Habila (southwest of Jebel Sitta, neighbouring the Ghulfan) may be another dialect or a separate language.[1]

References

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