Koalib language

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Koalib
Rere
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityKoalib, Turum, Umm Heitan
Native speakers
(44,000 cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kib
Glottologkoal1240

Koalib (also called Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere and Rere) is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan.[2] The Koalib Nuba, Turum and Umm Heitan ethnic groups speak this language.

Dialects and locations[]

Koalib dialects and locations (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):

  • Nginyukwur dialect: Hadra, Nyukwur, and Umm Heitan
  • Ngirere dialect: Abri area
  • Ngunduna dialect: Koalib hills area
  • Nguqwurang dialect: Turum and Umm Berumbita

Writing system[]

Capital and small at letters in Doulos SIL typeface

It is written using the Latin script,[2] but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign (@) for transcribing the letter ع in Arabic loanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D (lowercase) and U+2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode Consortium declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter.[3]

SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.[4] However, they have marked this PUA representation as deprecated since September 2014, and the current version of their corporate PUA character assignments package recommends using U+24D0 ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A and U+24B6 Ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A for that letter instead.[3]

Publications[]

The New Testament was published in Koalib in 1967.

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Koalib at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Ethnologue report Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine for language code: kib, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (January 17, 2019) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. SIL International Archived 2007-12-01 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 59-60. Retrieved on July 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Charis SIL Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine font documentation, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.

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