Kresh language

Not to be confused with Gbaya languages.
Kresh
Kresh-Ndogo
Gbaya
Native to South Sudan
Native speakers
 unknown: 16,000 all Kresh languages apart from Furu (2013)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 krs (Kresh–Gbaya–Woro–Dongo)
Glottolog gbay1289[2]

Kresh, also known as Kresh-Ndogo and Gbaya-Ndogo, is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan and the prestige variety of the Kresh languages.

The Kresh languages are not mutually intelligible. 'Kresh' is what the people are called by their neighbors; they call themselves Gbaya, an ambiguous name in English, shared with many of the unrelated Gbaya languages.

References

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


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