Shatt language

Shatt
Canning
Native to Sudan
Region Southern Sudan
Ethnicity Shatt
Native speakers
30,000 (2014)[1]
Dialects
Shatt Dammam
Language codes
ISO 639-3 shj
Glottolog shat1244[2]
Linguasphere 05-PEA-aa

The Shatt language is an Eastern Sudanic language of the Daju family spoken in the Shatt Hills (part of the Nuba Mountains) southwest of Kaduqli in South Kurdufan province in southern Sudan. The designation "Shatt" is an Arabic word meaning "dispersed" and is applied to several distinct groups in the Nuba Mountains. "Caning" is their own name for themselves.

References

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

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