Dengebu language

Dengebu
Dagik
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Mesakin
Native speakers
unknown (11,700 including Ngile cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dec
Glottolog dagi1241[2]

Dengebu, also Dagik, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin / Masakin people.

References

  1. Dengebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dagik". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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