Shatt language
| Shatt | |
|---|---|
| Canning | |
| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Southern Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Shatt |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2014)[1] |
|
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
shj |
| Glottolog |
shat1244[2] |
| Linguasphere |
05-PEA-aa |
The Shatt language is an Eastern Sudanic language of the Daju family spoken in the Shatt Hills (part of the Nuba Mountains) southwest of Kaduqli in South Kurdufan province in southern Sudan. 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.
References
- ↑ Shatt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Shatt". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Ethnologue Language map for Nuba Hills region of Sudan
- Language Map of Sudan Huffman, Steve
- Caning (Shatt) basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
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