Karko language (Sudan)
Karko (also Garko, Kaak, Karme, Kithonirishe; autonym: Kakenbi) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 7,000 people in the Karko hills, 35 km west of Dilling, including Dulman. Ethnologue reports that speakers of Karko are shifting to Sudanese Arabic.[1]
| Karko | |
|---|---|
| Kakenbi | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Mountains |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2004)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kko |
| Glottolog | kark1256[2] |
Dialects
Karko has three dialects: Karko, Kasha and Shifir. Additionally, varieties spoken by the Ilaki on Abu Junuk to the west (by 1,000 people) and by the Tamang at El Tabaq southwest of Katla (by 800 people) may be dialects or separate languages.[1]
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References
- "Karko". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karko". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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