Datooga

E257722

Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Datooga people of north-central Tanzania.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Datooga canonical 5
Dangaleat 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic language
Southern Nilotic language
language
belongsToBranch Southern Nilotic branch
continent Africa
country Tanzania
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Datooga people
glottologCode dato1236
hasAlternativeName Datoga
Mang’ati
Tatoga
hasDialect Asimjeeg
Barabaig
Bianjida
Gidang’odiga
Gisamjanga
Rotigenga
hasNeighborLanguage Iraqw
Isanzu
Maasai
Nyaturu
Rangi
Sukuma
iso6393Code tcc
languageFamily Nilotic languages
surface form: Nilotic
linguisticTypology tonal language
verb–subject–object language
primaryUsage daily communication among Datooga people
region Arusha Region
Dodoma Region
Manyara Region
Singida Region
spokenBy Datooga people
spokenIn Tanzania
north-central Tanzania
subfamily Southern Nilotic languages
surface form: Southern Nilotic
usedInDomain folklore
oral tradition
pastoralist culture
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Kalenjin closelyRelatedTo Datooga
Omotik relatedTo Datooga
Iraqw hasLoanwordsFrom Datooga
Mubi neighboringLanguage Datooga
this entity surface form: Dangaleat