What are the main Dinka dialects?
What are the main Dinka dialects?
A Western Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan, of which five major dialects exist: Northeastern Dinka (Padaŋ), Northwestern Dinka, South Central Dinka (Agar), Southeastern Dinka (Bor), and Southwestern Dinka (Rek).
How are you in Dinka language?
Dinka
- Ciyibak – How are you? ( Audio)
- Acin Kerac – I’m fine (Audio)
- Yincalor – Welcome (Audio)
- Yinca Leec – Thank you. ( Audio)
Does Dinka have a written language?
The written Dinka language is based on the ISO basic Latin alphabet, but with some added letters adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet. The current orthography is derived from the alphabet developed for the southern Sudanese languages at the Rejaf language conference in 1928.
Is Dinka a tonal language?
Five Surface Contrastive Tones In Twic East Dinka, the writing system does not encode tones as tonal languages like Mandarin do.
What race speaks Dinka?
Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ) is a Nilotic language spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan.
Which language do South Sudanese speak?
English
South Sudan/Official languages
Which tribe is the most educated in South Sudan?
1. KUKU: Kuku tops the list of the most educated people in South Sudan.
What is the official language of Burundi?
Kirundi
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Burundi/Official languages
Burundi is a small landlocked country with three main languages spoken: Kirundi, French and Kiswahili. Kirundi, our indigenous language, is the national language spoken by all Burundians, used more in informal social settings.
Is South Sudan Arabic?
South Sudan is not an Arab state, but there were similar debates when Somalia and Djibouti joined the Arab League after independence, even though some members did not consider them eligible because Arabic is not their most common language.
What language do the Dinka people speak?
Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ) is a Nilotic language spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan. There are several main dialects, including Padang, Rek, Agaar, Hol, Twic East, Twic, Athooc, and Gok, which show limited variation.
What does Dinka stand for?
Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thuɔŋ ee Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan. There are several main varieties, Padang, Rek, Agaar, Awiel, Twic Mayardit, Hol, Nyarweng, Twi and Bor, which are distinct enough (though mutually intelligible)…
Is jajaang a Dinka language?
Jaang, Jieng or Monyjieng is used as a general term to cover all Dinka languages. Rek is the standard and prestige dialect. The language most related to Dinka is Nuer, the language of the Dinka’s traditional rivals. The Luo languages are also closely related.
Is there a unified written grammar of Dinka?
Recently Akutm ɛ̈ t Latue ŋ Thu ɔŋ jä ŋ (the Dinka Language Development Association) has proposed a unified written grammar of Dinka. The language most closely related to Dinka is the Nuer language. The Luo languages are also closely related.
