Kadallu language

Kadallu
Kadallu
Native to	Sudan
Region	Ad-Damazin
Ethnicity	Gumuz
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Komuz Gumuz Kadallu; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Kadallu is a poorly attested Gumuz language of southeastern Sudan. It is known only from two short word lists. It is spoken on the Blue Nile in the southeastern corner of Sudan, in the area surrounding Ad-Damazin and Er Roseires, and just south-southeast of (across the river from) near the Ethiopian border.^[1]

Dimmendaal et al. note that Kadallu (Kadalo) is a language spoken in the Republic of Sudan which is currently listed as an alternatename for Gumuz in the Ethnologue (Simons and Fennig 2017). However, from examining existing word lists (Schuver 1882 in James et al. 1996, Muratori 1955) we suspect that Kadallu is a distinct language.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Gerrit Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan', Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, p. 6–7

[dim-1] Gerrit Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland & Angelika Jakobi (2019) Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan', Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, p. 6–7

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