Tegem language

Tegem
Jebel Tekeim
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Lafofa
Native speakers
 (5,100 all Lalofa cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (included in laf)
Glottolog jebe1249[2]

Tegem, also Jebel Tekeim, is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Lafofa, which is poorly attested.

References

  1. ↑ Lafofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jebel Tekeim". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"


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