| Sungor | |
|---|---|
| Assangori | |
| Native to | Chad and Sudan |
| Region | western Sudan and eastern Chad |
| Ethnicity | Sungor, Erenga |
Native speakers | (24,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sjg |
| Glottolog | assa1269 |
| ELP | Assangori[2] |
| Linguasphere | 05-DAA-ae |
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]
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
- ^ Sungor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Assangori.
- ^ a b 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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