Sungor language

Sungor
Assangori
Native to Chad and Sudan
Region western Sudan and eastern Chad
Ethnicity Sungor, Erenga
Native speakers
24,000 (1993 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Sungor
  • Erenga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sjg
Glottolog assa1269[2]
Linguasphere 05-PEA-aa

Sungor (Assangori) is a language of eastern Chad and western Sudan. It is a member of the Taman language family. The majority of native speakers are Muslim and most use Chadian Arabic as a second language.

Ethnologue lists the Erenga dialect under Tama.

References

  1. Sungor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Assangori". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Guinet, X. 1973. Esquisse d’une phonologie du Sungor. in Boyeldieu, P. (éd.), Problèmes de phonologie, Bibliothèque de la SELAF, 38 :73-100. Nachtigal, G. 1938. Die Sprache der Sungor in Wadai. [J. Lukas ed.] Mitteilungen der Ausland- Hochschule und Universität, Berlin, 41: 171-246.


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