Katla language

Katla
Kaalak
Native to	Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity	Katla, Gulud
Native speakers	25,000 Julud (2009)^[1] possibly 14,000 Katla in 1984^[2]
Language family	Niger–Congo Katla Katla
Dialects	Katla-Cakom Katla-Kulharong Julud
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kcr`
Glottolog	`katl1237` (Katla)^[3] `julu1237` (Julud)^[4]

The Katla language, Kaalak, is a Kordofanian language, closely related to a neighboring language called Tima, but otherwise quite divergent within the Niger–Congo family.

The variety Julud is mutually intelligible with Katla-Kulharong but not with Katla-Cakom

References

↑ Katla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Katla at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Katla". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Julud". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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

Kordofanian languages (geographic)

Talodi–Heiban

Heiban	Ebang Ko Kwalib Laro Logol Moro Shirumba Tiro Utoro Warnang

Talodi	Acheron Dengebu Jomang Lumun Nding Ngile Tocho Torona

Katla-Rashad

Katla	Domorik Kaalak

Rashad	Tagoi Tegali

Kadu

Western	Kanga Keiga Tulishi

Eastern	Krongo Tumtum

Other	Kadugli

Lafofa

Amira
Tegem

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