Dagik language

Dagik
	Dengebu
Region	Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity	Mesakin
Native speakers	(11,700 including Ngile cited 1984)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Talodi Masakin Dagik; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dec
Glottolog	dagi1241

Dagik, also Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

It is spoken in Buram, Kamlela, Reikha, Taballa, and Tosari villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).[2]

References

Dagik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.

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