Dinka

E175971

Nilotic language Southern Luo language language

Dinka is a Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Dinka people of South Sudan.

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All labels observed (8)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nilotic language ⓘ Southern Luo language ⓘ language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Atuot language ⓘ Nuer language ⓘ Shilluk language ⓘ
country	South Sudan ⓘ
ethnologueEntry	Dinka self-link ⓘ
hasDialects	Agar Dinka ⓘ Dinka self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Borghol Dinka Dinka language ⓘ surface form: Northeastern Dinka Padang Dinka ⓘ Rek Dinka ⓘ Dinka self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: South Central Dinka Dinka people ⓘ surface form: Southwestern Dinka Twic Dinka ⓘ
hasGlottocode	dink1262 ⓘ
hasISO639-1Code	none ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code	din ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	din ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	fusional ⓘ tonal morphology ⓘ
hasNativeName	Thuɔŋjäŋ ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	advanced tongue root vowel harmony ⓘ contrastive vowel length ⓘ tonal distinctions ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
languageBranch	Nilotic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ
languageGroup	Western Nilotic languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily	Eastern Sudanic languages ⓘ
majorEthnicGroup	Dinka people ⓘ
primaryReligionOfSpeakers	Christianity ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ
region	Bahr el Ghazal ⓘ Greater Upper Nile ⓘ Jonglei State ⓘ Lakes State ⓘ
spokenBy	Dinka people ⓘ
spokenIn	South Sudan ⓘ
status	majority language in South Sudan ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in parts of South Sudan ⓘ
usedIn	education in South Sudan ⓘ local media in South Sudan ⓘ
usesDiacriticsFor	tone ⓘ vowel quality ⓘ
writingSystemType	alphabet ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

David Nyuol Vincent → languageSpoken → Dinka ⓘ

South Sudan → mainEthnicGroup → Dinka ⓘ

Nilo-Saharian → includesLanguage → Dinka ⓘ