Katla language
Katla | |
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Kaalak | |
Native to | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
Ethnicity | Katla, Gulud |
Native speakers |
25,000 Julud (2009)[1] possibly 14,000 Katla in 1984[2] |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kcr |
Glottolog |
katl1237 (Katla)[3]julu1237 (Julud)[4] |
The Katla language, Kaalak, is a Kordofanian language, closely related to a neighboring language called Tima, but otherwise quite divergent within the Niger–Congo family.
The variety Julud is mutually intelligible with Katla-Kulharong but not with Katla-Cakom
References
- ↑ Katla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Katla at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Katla". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Julud". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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