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 toSudan
RegionSouthern Sudan
EthnicityShatt
Native speakers
30,000 (2014)[1]
Dialects
  • Shatt Dammam
Language codes
ISO 639-3shj
Glottologshat1244
ELPShatt
Linguasphere05-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

  1. Shatt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Boyeldieu, Pascal. 2011. The modified form of Shatt Damam nouns and its Daju cognates. Afrika und Übersee 91. 9-84.
  • 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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