Social:Didinga language
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Short description: Eastern Sudanic language of South Sudan
| Didinga | |
|---|---|
| Lango | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
| Region | Didinga Hills |
| Ethnicity | Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo) |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2017)e25 |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | did |
| Glottolog | didi1258[1] |
The Didinga language (’Di’dinga) is a Surmic language spoken by the Chukudum and Lowudo peoples of the Didinga Hills of South Sudan. It is classified as a member of the southwest branch Surmic languages (Fleming 1983). Its nearest relative is Laaarim.
The New Testament in the Didinga language was dedicated in March 2018.[2]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Didinga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/didi1258.
- ↑ Didinga New Testament. https://find.bible/bibles/DIDWBT/
Relevant literature
- De Jong, N., 2001. The ideophone in Didinga. Typological studies in language 44, pp.121-138.
- Fleming, Harold. 1983. "Surmic etymologies," in Nilotic Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples, Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, 524–555. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
- Odden, David. 1983. Aspects of Didinga phonology and morphology. Nilo-Saharan language studies, pp.148-176.
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