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Record 1 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

An Eastern Sudanic language of the Chari-Nile branch closely related to Shilluk and spoken by the Dinka, a people of the Nile valley inhabiting the country south of Khartoum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue nilotique parlée par les Dinka, groupe ethnique vivant dans la province du Bahr el-Ghazal entre Wau et Malakal, dans le bassin central du Nil.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicolingüística, sociolingüística y etnolingüística
OBS

La lengua dinka (jeing) pertenece a la rama occidental nilótica (chari-nilo) de la familia nilo-sahariana de lenguas, [es] hablada por unos 2 millones de personas al sur de Sudán y suroeste de Etiopía.

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