Dagik language
Dagik, also Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
| Dagik | |
|---|---|
| Dengebu | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Mesakin |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2017)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dec |
| Glottolog | dagi1241 |
It is spoken in Buram, Kamlela, Reikha, Taballa, and Tosari villages.[1]
The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t̪ | t | k | |||
| Fricative | (f) | s | (h) | ||||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ŋ | |||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j |
- Sounds /p, t̪, t, k/ can have intervocalic allophones as sonorants [β, ð, ɾ, ɣ], and voiced allophones [b, d̪, d, ɡ] when after nasals.
- Sounds [f, h] only have marginal status.
- /r/ can also be heard as a tap [ɾ] allophone.
References
- Dagik at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.
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