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(Redirected from Dengebu language) Talodi language spoken in Sudan
Dagik
Dhaduwa
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityMesakin
Native speakers67,000 (2022)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Arreme
  • Adobu
  • Tosari
Writing systemLatin
Language codes
ISO 639-3dec
Glottologdagi1241

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

Labial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p t k
Fricative (f) s (h)
Nasal m n ŋ
Rhotic r ɽ
Approximant w l j
  • 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

Front Central Back
Close i u
ɪ ʊ
Mid ɛ ə ɔ
Open a
  • /u/ can also assimilate to a close-mid in different environments.

References

  1. Dagik at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.
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Kordofanian languages (geographic)
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