Didinga language

Didinga
Lango
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Didinga Hills
Ethnicity	Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo)
Native speakers	60,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Surmic South Southwest Didinga–Narim Didinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	did
Glottolog	didi1258[2]

The Didinga language (’Di’dinga) is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Chukudum and Lowudo peoples of the Didinga Hills of South Sudan. It is classified as a member of the southwest branch Surmic languages (Fleming 1983). Its nearest relative is Narim.

References

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

• Fleming, Harold. 1983. "Surmic etymologies," in Nilotic Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples, Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, 524–555. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

External links

• Didinga basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database