Tese language

Tese
Ţɛséʔ
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Native speakers	(1,400 with Keiga Jirru, cited 1971)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Temein Tese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`keg` (shared with Keiga Jirru)
Glottolog	`tese1238`^[2]

Tese (Teisei) is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Hills of Sudan.

Ethnologue lists Keiga Jirru as an alternate name, but that is a distinct Temein language.

References

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

Temein languages (Roger Blench 2007)

External links

Tese basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

Languages of Sudan

Official languages	Standard Arabic Sudanese Arabic English

Indigenous languages	Acheron Amira Beja Dengebu Daza Dinka Domari Doni Ebang Fur Jomang Kadugli Kanga Katla Keiga Ko Kwalib Krongo Laro Logol Lumun Moro Nding Ngile Shirumba Tagoi Tegali Tegem Temein Tese Tima Tiro Tocho Torona Tulishi Tumtum Utoro Warnang Zaghawa

Eastern Sudanic languages

Astaboran languages

Nubian	Birgid Hill Nubian Kenzi-Dongolawi Midob Nobiin Old Nubian

Nara	Nara

Nyima	Ama Dinik

Taman	Sungor Tama

Kir–Abbaian languages

Surmic

North	Majang

Southeast	Kwegu Me'en Mursi Suri

Southwest	Didinga Kacipo-Balesi Murle Narim Tennet

Eastern Jebel

Temein

Daju

Eastern	Liguri Shatt

Western	Beigo Daju Mongo Njalgulgule Nyala Sila

Nilotic languages

Eastern Nilotic

Bari

Teso–Turkana	Karimojong Teso Toposa Turkana

Lotuko	Lango Lokoya Lopit Lotuko

Ongamo–Maa	Camus Maasai Ongamo Samburu

Western Nilotic

Dinka–Nuer	Dinka Nuer Reel

Luo languages	Anuak Belanda Bor Burun Luwo Päri Shilluk Southern Luo Thuri

Southern Nilotic

Burun

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