Karko language (Sudan)
Karko (also Garko, Kaak, Karme, Kithonirishe; autonym: Kakenbi) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 7,000 people in the Karko hills, 35 km west of Dilling, including Dulman. Ethnologue reports that speakers of Karko are shifting to Sudanese Arabic.[1]
| Karko | |
|---|---|
| Kakenbi | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Mountains |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2004)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kko |
| Glottolog | kark1256 |
| ELP | Karko (Sudan) |
 Karko is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Dialects
Karko has three dialects: Karko, Kasha and Shifir. Additionally, varieties spoken by the Ilaki on Abu Junuk to the west (by 1,000 people) and by the Tamang at El Tabaq southwest of Katla (by 800 people) may be dialects or separate languages.[1]
References
- "Karko". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
External links
- Tabaq (Karko) DoReCo corpus compiled by Birgit Hellwig, Gertrud Schneider-Blum and Khaleel Bakheet Khaleel Ismail. Audio recordings of narrative texts, with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level and translations.
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