Dagik | |
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Dhaduwa | |
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Hills |
Ethnicity | Mesakin |
Native speakers | 67,000 (2022) [1] |
Dialects |
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dec |
Glottolog |
dagi1241 |
Dagik, or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016). [2]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p | t̪ | t | k | |||
Fricative | ( f) | s | ( h) | ||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ŋ | |||
Rhotic | r | ɽ | |||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
ɪ | ʊ | ||
Mid | ɛ | ə | ɔ |
Open | a |