Kordofanian Kadu
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Kordofanian Kadu refers to a small group of under-documented languages spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, often classified within or alongside the Kordofanian branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nuba Mountains language group
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language group ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Kadu languages
NERFINISHED
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Kadugli–Krongo languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | South Kordofan conflict (indirectly via speaker communities) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationDebatedBy | Africanist linguists ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | under-documented ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | scattered communities in the Nuba Mountains ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
limited written tradition
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primarily oral use ⓘ small speaker populations for most member languages ⓘ subject to language shift to Arabic ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Dair
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Dilling NERFINISHED ⓘ Kadugli NERFINISHED ⓘ Katcha NERFINISHED ⓘ Keiga NERFINISHED ⓘ Krongo NERFINISHED ⓘ Miri NERFINISHED ⓘ Tumma NERFINISHED ⓘ Tumtum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | limited noun class remnants (debated) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length in some member languages ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature |
frequent code-switching with Arabic
ⓘ
multilingualism among speakers ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Kadugli group
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Krongo group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Niger–Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticStatus | poorly described in comparative Niger–Congo studies ⓘ |
| locatedIn | South Kordofan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oftenClassifiedAs | Kordofanian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchTopic |
historical classification within Niger–Congo
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internal subgrouping of Kadu languages ⓘ |
| sometimesClassifiedAs | Niger–Congo isolate branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Nuba peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Nuba Mountains
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ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | expansion of Sudanese Arabic ⓘ |
| timeFrameDocumented | primarily 20th and 21st centuries ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV word order (in many member languages)
ⓘ
tone languages ⓘ |
| usedIn | local interethnic communication in parts of the Nuba Mountains ⓘ |
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