Madi

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Madi is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Madi people in parts of South Sudan and northern Uganda.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Sudanic language
language
natural language
associatedWith Madi oral traditions
Madi traditional culture
belongsTo Central Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan (in many classifications)
continent Africa
country South Sudan NERFINISHED
Uganda
ethnicGroup Madi people NERFINISHED
family Central Sudanic NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Madi language NERFINISHED
Ma’di NERFINISHED
Ma’di language NERFINISHED
hasDialect Gbariba-related varieties (sometimes classified)
Lokai Madi NERFINISHED
Metu Madi NERFINISHED
Moyo Madi NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature noun class-like agreement patterns (in some analyses)
tone language
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrasts (gemination)
contrastive vowel length
ISO639-3Code mhi
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Acholi NERFINISHED
Bari NERFINISHED
Kuku NERFINISHED
Lugbara NERFINISHED
primaryLocation Madi areas of South Sudan
Madi areas of northern Uganda
region Central Africa
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Equatoria region NERFINISHED
South Sudan
Uganda NERFINISHED
northern Uganda NERFINISHED
status regional language
subfamily Eastern Nilotic–Central Sudanic contact area language
usedBy Madi people NERFINISHED
usedIn church services
local education (some schools)
oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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northwestern Uganda hasEthnicGroup Madi
subject surface form: Northwestern Uganda
Anyanya languageOfName Madi