CAR, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Cameroon
Native speakers
ca. 15 million[1]
Linguistic classification
Nilo-Saharan?
Central Sudanic
Proto-language
Proto-Central Sudanic
Subdivisions
Bongo–Bagirmi
Mangbetu–Asoa
Mangbutu–Lese
Lendu
Moru–Madi
? Birri–Kresh
ISO 639-5
csu
Glottolog
cent2225
Central Sudanic languages in Africa
Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Cameroon. They include the pygmy languages Efé and Asoa.
Blench (2011) suggests that Central Sudanic influenced the development of the noun-class system characteristic of the Atlantic–Congo languages.[citation needed]
^"Nilo-Saharan; Ethnologue".
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