Atwot

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Atwot is a Nilotic language spoken by the Atwot people of South Sudan, closely related to Dinka and Nuer.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic language
Western Nilotic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Dinka NERFINISHED
Nuer NERFINISHED
country South Sudan NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Atwot people NERFINISHED
glottocode atwo1241
hasAlternativeName Atuot NERFINISHED
Atwot language NERFINISHED
Reel
Reel language NERFINISHED
hasCaseMarking true
hasConsonantLengthContrast true
hasDialect Apak NERFINISHED
Jileng NERFINISHED
Kuek NERFINISHED
Luac NERFINISHED
Rorkec NERFINISHED
Rorom NERFINISHED
Thiang NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType fusional
moderately synthetic
hasNounClassOrGenderDistinctions true GENERATED
hasNumberMarkingOnNouns true
hasTonalPhonology true
hasVerbalAspectMarking true
hasVowelLengthContrast true
iso639-3Code atu
languageFamily Eastern Sudanic languages NERFINISHED
Nilo-Saharan languages
Nilotic languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology SVO word order (dominant)
tone language
neighboringLanguage Bongo NERFINISHED
Dinka NERFINISHED
Jur NERFINISHED
Nuer NERFINISHED
region Greater Bahr el Ghazal NERFINISHED
Lakes region
spokenBy Atwot people NERFINISHED
spokenByMinorityGroupIn South Sudan NERFINISHED
spokenIn Lakes State NERFINISHED
South Sudan NERFINISHED
subfamily Western Nilotic languages NERFINISHED
usedInTraditionalOralLiterature true
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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