Daju, Dar Sila

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A language of Chad

ISO 639-3
dau
Alternate Names
Bokorike, Dadjo, Dajou, Daju, Sila, Sula
Population

63,100 in Chad (2000).

Location

Ouaddaï Region, Sila department; Goz-Beïda area and east to Sudan border; Salamat Region, Barh Azoum department, camps of internally displaced people. Also in Sudan.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Western, Daju, Western Daju
Dialects

Not inherently intelligible with Dar Daju Daju [djc]. Lexical similarity: 74% with Daju [daj] of Darfur (Nyala and Lagowa), 60% with Shatt [shj], 57% with Logorik [liu].

Language Use

Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu].

Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 0%.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Daju, Dar Sila
Writing
Unwritten.
Other Comments

Muslim.

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