Ngile language

Ngile
	Daloka
Region	Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity	Mesakin
Native speakers	(11,700, including Dengebu cited 1984)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Talodi Masakin Ngile; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jle
Glottolog	ngil1242[2]

Ngile, also known as Daloka, Taloka, Darra, Masakin, Mesakin [a dialect], is a Niger–Congo unwritten language in the Talodi family spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

Dialects

Dialects are (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):

Masakin Tuwal dialect (spoken in Masakin and Togosilu villages)
Daloka dialect (spoken in Daloka and El Aheimar villages)

gollark: That seems kind of too specific?

gollark: µhahahaha. I shall be so illusory.

gollark: So if I tell people I'm called gollark, but I'm actually called hollark, I am considered an illusion?

gollark: So if I lie to people and tell them I am an arbitrarily large swarm of bees...?

gollark: Great? That's probably the definition people practically use anyway.

References

Ngile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngile". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Ngile at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngile". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.