Sungor language

Sungor (Assangori) is a language of eastern Chad and western Sudan. It is spoken in an area located to the south of Biltine and to the north of Adré in Chad.[3]

Sungor
Assangori
Native toChad and Sudan
Regionwestern Sudan and eastern Chad
EthnicitySungor, Erenga
Native speakers
(24,000 cited 1993 census)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Dialects
  • Sungor
  • Erenga
Language codes
ISO 639-3sjg
Glottologassa1269[2]
Linguasphere05-DAA-ae

It is a member of the Taman language family. The majority of native speakers are Muslim and most use Chadian Arabic as a second language.

Ethnologue lists the Erenga (ereŋa) dialect under Tama. It is spoken to the north and east of Geneina (Jeneina), Darfur.[3]

References

  1. Sungor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Assangori". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372

Guinet, X. 1973. Esquisse d’une phonologie du Sungor. in Boyeldieu, P. (éd.), Problèmes de phonologie, Bibliothèque de la SELAF, 38 :73-100. Nachtigal, G. 1938. Die Sprache der Sungor in Wadai. [J. Lukas ed.] Mitteilungen der Ausland- Hochschule und Universität, Berlin, 41: 171-246.


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