Shatt language
The Shatt language is an Eastern Sudanic language of the Daju family spoken by the Shatt people in the Shatt Hills (part of the Nuba Mountains) southwest of Kaduqli in South Kurdufan province in southern Sudan.
| Shatt | |
|---|---|
| ìkkɨ̀ cánnìñ | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Southern Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Shatt |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2014)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | shj |
| Glottolog | shat1244 |
| ELP | Shatt |
| Linguasphere | 05-PEA-aa |
 Shatt is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Villages are Shatt Daman, Shatt Safia, and Shatt Tebeldia (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Names
The designation "Shatt" is an Arabic word meaning "dispersed" and is applied to several distinct groups in the Nuba Mountains. "Caning" is their own name for themselves. Speakers refer to their language as ìkkɨ̀ cánnìñ ('mouth, language').[2]
References
- Shatt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Boyeldieu, Pascal. 2011. The modified form of Shatt Damam nouns and its Daju cognates. Afrika und Übersee 91. 9-84.
External links
- Ethnologue Language map for Nuba Hills region of Sudan
- Huffman, Steve. "Language Map of Sudan" (PDF). www.worldgeodatasets.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017.
- Caning (Shatt) basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
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