Kanga language

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Kanga
Native to Sudan
Region South Kordofan
Ethnicity Kanga
Native speakers
17,000 (2022) [1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kcp
Glottolog kang1288
ELP Kanga
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Kanga is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Kanga is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Kadu branch spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan.

The Kufa-Lima dialect is spoken in Bilenya, Dologi, Lenyaguyox, Lima, Kilag, Kufa, Mashaish, and Toole villages, with Toole as the central village. [1]

A preliminary grammar of the Kufa-Lima variety (termed "Kufo") has been published recently. [2]

A phonological description of the Kufa-Lima variety (termed "Kufo") has been developed, [3] and the vowel inventory has been investigated with acoustic phonetic evidence. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Kanga at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Mullan, Keira (2022). Nominal number and gender in Kufo: A description of its derivational and inflectional systems (Honours thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/G63X-DT44.
  3. ↑ Li, Shubo (2022). A phonological sketch of the Kufo language (Honours thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/QQPD-PP24.
  4. ↑ Li, Shubo (2022). "The vowel inventory of the Kufo language" (PDF). Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association: 71–75.

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