| Sungor | |
|---|---|
| Bognak-Asungorung | |
| Assangori | |
| Native to | Chad, Sudan |
| Region | Ouaddaï, Darfur |
| Ethnicity | Sungor, Erenga |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2023)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Unwritten | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sjg |
| Glottolog | assa1269 |
| ELP | Assangori |
| Linguasphere | 05-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]
- ^ Sungor at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ a b Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Bombay, Elaine (2007). "Enquête sociolinguistique sur les langues tama et assangori parlers du Tchad et du Soudan". Journal of Language Survey Reports.
- ^ Voeglin, C. F.; Voeglin, F. M. (1964). "Languages of the World: Africa Fascicle One". Anthropological Linguistics. 6 (5): 226. JSTOR 30022465.
