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Dinka, Southeastern

A language of Sudan

ISO 639-3: dks

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. 1983. Sticks and straw: Comparative house forms in southern Sudan and northern Kenya.  

Duerksen, John L. 1989. "Syllable initial ‘h’ in Dinka."

Duerksen, John. 2004. "Dinka-Nuer orthographies."

Gilley, Leoma. 2004. "Morphophonemic orthographies in fusional languages: the cases of Dinka and Shilluk."  

Pike, Kenneth L. 1967. "Tongue-root position in practical phonetics."

Roettger, Larry and Lisa Roettger. 1989. "A Dinka dialect study."

Wise, Mary Ruth and Richard L. Watson, editors. 1989. Occasional papers in the study of Sudanese languages no. 6.  

Vernacular Publications

Cïït ke gɔ̈t: Yenë ke ka cïke gɔ̈ɔ̈r tɛ̈ɛ̈k yiic. 2005.