Dinka, Southeastern
A language of Sudan
| Population | 250,000 in Sudan. 21,000 Atoc, 9,000 Ghol, 4,000 Nyarueng, 35,000 Twi, 21,000 Bor Gok (Tucker and Bryan 1956). Population total all countries: 265,900. |
| Region | South, east of the Nile, Bor [dks] area, and north. Also in Canada. |
| Language map |
Sudan |
| Alternate names | Bor, Eastern Dinka |
| Dialects | Bor (Bor Gok), Athoc (Athoic, Atoc, Borathoi, Bor Athoic), Ghol, Nyarweng (Nyarueng, Narreweng), Tuic (Twi). |
| Classification | Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Dinka-Nuer, Dinka A member of macrolanguage Dinka [din] (Sudan). |
| Language use | Some also use Nuer [nus]. |
| Language development | Some literacy materials produced. NT: 1940. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
ARENSEN, Jonathan E., author. 1983. Sticks and Straw: Comparative House Forms in Southern Sudan and Northern Kenya.
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DUERKSEN, John L., author. 1989. "Syllable initial ‘h’ in Dinka."
DUERKSEN, John L., author. 2004. "Dinka-Nuer orthographies."
GILLEY, Leoma G., author. 2004. Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk.
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PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1967. "Tongue-root position in practical phonetics."
ROETTGER, Larry; ROETTGER, Lisa, authors. 1989. "A Dinka dialect study."
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Dinka Agaar and Bor melodies and music testing DS-57-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Dinka and Bor songs DS-56-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Dinka Bor songs DS-49-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Dinka songs Bor-South DS-71-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Jieng youth service - part 1 DS-41-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Jieng youth service - part 3 DS-43-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Jieng youth service: part 2 DS-42-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Music from Khartoum DS-55-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. Songs from south Dinka DS-84-pres.
SHALER, Dorothy, recorder. 2012. South Dinka songs DS-60-pres.

