Thuɔŋjäŋ

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Thuɔŋjäŋ is the endonym used by its speakers for the Dinka language of South Sudan, a major Nilotic language of the region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thuɔŋjäŋ canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dinka language
Nilotic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Atuot language
Nuer language
country South Sudan
endonymFor Dinka language
ethnicAssociation Dinka people
surface form: Dinka ethnic group
glottologCode dink1262
hasAlternativeName Dinka
Dinka language
hasDialects Agar Dinka
Bor Dinka
Rek Dinka
surface form: Malual Dinka

Dinka
surface form: Ngök Dinka

Padang Dinka
Rek Dinka
Twic Dinka
hasFeature advanced tongue root vowel harmony
tonal language
vowel length contrast
hasMorphologicalType fusional
synthetic
hasOrthography standardized Latin-based orthography
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
three-way vowel length distinction in some dialects
hasSpeakerPopulation over one million speakers
hasSVOOrder true
ISO639-3Code din
languageBranch Western Nilotic languages
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
languageSubfamily Eastern Nilotic languages
linguisticArea Nilotic languages
surface form: Nilotic languages area
macrolanguageOf various Dinka dialect clusters
majorLanguageOf South Sudan
primaryUse cultural expression
everyday communication
oral tradition
region Nile Valley
surface form: Greater Nile Valley
spokenIn East Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
usedBy Dinka people
usedIn education in some areas of South Sudan
local media in South Sudan
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (2)

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

Dinka language hasAlternativeName Thuɔŋjäŋ
Dinka hasNativeName Thuɔŋjäŋ