Sungor people

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Sungor or Asungor is an ethnic group in Chad. They speak Assangori, a Nilo-Saharan language. They numbered at least 60,000 according to a 1996 source. [1]

Culture

The Sungor are mainly pastoralists who raise goats, camels, and cattle. They also engage in subsistence agriculture. [1]

Majority of the Sungor are Muslim. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Olson, James Stuart; Meur, Charles (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 42. ISBN   978-0-313-27918-8.



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