| Eastern Jebel | ||
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| General information | ||
| Spoken in |
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| Number of speakers |
67,800 (most are Gaam) | |
| Divisions |
Nilo-Saharan
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The rough location of the Eastern Jebel languages, in the An Nil al Azraq province.
The Eastern Jebel languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken in Sudan's An Nil al Azraq province. They consist of four languages in two groups:
- Aka-Kelo-Molo
- Gaam
- Gaam
Gaam has an esimated 40-80,000 number of speakers, while the members of the Aka-Kelo-Molo group are on the verge of extinction, with a total of all three the languages having only 600 speakers.
References[]
- Eastern Jebel languages on Ethnologue
- Malik Agaar Ayre & M. Lionel Bender, Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary. Addis Abeba 1980.
- M. Lionel Bender. "The Eastern Jebel Languages of Sudan". Afrika und Übersee 80 (1997), 81 (1998):189-215, 39-64.
- W. J. Crewe. "The Phonological Features of the Ingessana Language". 1975
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard, "Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung", Sudan Notes and Records 15.1, 1932. pp. 1-61.
- F. S. & J. Lister. "The Ingessana Language: A Preliminary Description", Journal of Ethiopian Studies 4.1, 1966. pp. 41-44.
- B. Z. Seligman. "Notes on Two Languages Spoken in the Sennar Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan", Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen 2.4, 1912. pp.297-308.
- Timothy M. Stirtz. "Phonology and Orthography in Gaahmg", in ed. Leoma C. Gilley, Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages No. 9, Entebbe: SIL-Sudan 2004.
- Sisto Verri. "Il Linguaggio degli Ingessana nell'Africa Occidentale", Anthropos 50, 1955. pp. 282-318.
- Eastern Jebel languages on English Wikipedia
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