Sungor language

Sungor
Bognak-Asungorung
Assangori
Native toChad, Sudan
RegionOuaddaï, Darfur
EthnicitySungor, Erenga
Native speakers
100,000 (2023)[1]
Dialects
  • Sungor
  • Walad Dulla
Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3sjg
Glottologassa1269
ELPAssangori
Linguasphere05-DAA-ae
Sungor is classified as Vulnerable by the Endangered Languages Project

Sungor (also Assangorior, Assangor, Assangori, Songor, Asongor) is an Eastern Sudanic language of eastern Chad and western Sudan and a member of the Taman branch. It is closely related to Tama with some researchers speaking of a Tama-Assangori continuum.[2][3][4]

Sungor is spoken in an area located to the south of Biltine and to the north of Adré (Ouaddaï) in Chad, as well as in Darfur in Sudan.[5][2] It is spoken by the Sungor people, of which a majority are Muslim.[3] The number of speakers was estimated at 23,500 according to the 1993 census of Chad.[4]

  1. ^ Sungor at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
  3. ^ a b Lukas, J. (1938). Die Sprache der Sungor in Wadai (Aus Nachtigals Nachlaß) (in German). Mitteilungen der Ausland-Hochschule Universität Berlin. pp. 171–246.
  4. ^ a b Bombay, Elaine (2007). "Enquête sociolinguistique sur les langues tama et assangori parlers du Tchad et du Soudan". Journal of Language Survey Reports.
  5. ^ Voeglin, C. F.; Voeglin, F. M. (1964). "Languages of the World: Africa Fascicle One". Anthropological Linguistics. 6 (5): 226. JSTOR 30022465.