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Dinka, Southeastern

A language of Sudan

ISO 639-3dks

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.  Available for purchase

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.  Available online

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

ROETTGER, Larry; ROETTGER, Lisa, authors. 1989. "A Dinka dialect study."

SHALER, Dorothy, facilitator; NIKKEL, Marc, recorder; AJAK, Jon; ANUEN MANYOK, Daniel; BOL DENG, Bartholomeo; BUZ, Simon; GOLULK, Samuel; REETH, Peter, speakers. 2012. Dinka songs DS-54-pres.

SHALER, Dorothy, facilitator; NIKKEL, Marc, recorder; ALUEL, Mary, speaker. 2012. Dinka songs by Mary Aluel DS-53-pres.

SHALER, Dorothy, facilitator; NIKKEL, Marc, recorder; GARAD Ded, speaker. 2012. Twic Dinka Tuaar chants DS-51-pres.

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.

SHALER, Dorothy, recorder; COR DE AQUER BUL, Kezekiel; KELEI, Daniel Deng, speakers. 2012. Dinka melodies DS-62-pres.

WATSON, Richard L.; WISE, Mary Ruth, 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.