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Talodi language spoken in Sudan
Dagik , or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha , is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan , Sudan . It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile , which is also spoken by the Mesakin people .
The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).
Phonology
Consonants
Sounds /p, t̪, t, k/ can have intervocalic allophones as sonorants , and voiced allophones when after nasals.
Sounds only have marginal status.
/r/ can also be heard as a tap allophone.
Vowels
/u/ can also assimilate to a close-mid in different environments.
References
Dagik at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.
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