Vale languages

The Vale languages, or Ruto–Vale, comprise a small number of languages spoken by a few tens of thousands of people in the Central African Republic and perhaps Chad. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

Vale
Ruto–Vale
Geographic
distribution
CAR, Chad
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Glottologndug1243[1]

The most populous Vale language is Ruto (Lutos), spoken by twenty thousand people. The other clearly related language is Vale (with its Tana variety perhaps a third).

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nduga–Luto". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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