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Keiga language information


Keiga
Keiga-Timero
Native toSudan
RegionKordofan
EthnicityKeiga
Native speakers
(6,100 cited 1984)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Kadu
    • Kadugli-Krongo
      • Keiga
Dialects
  • Demik
  • Aigang
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3kec
Glottologkeig1242
ELPKeiga
Keiga is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Keiga, Yega, or Deiga is a Kadu language spoken in Kordofan. Dialects are Demik (Rofik) and Keiga proper (Aigang).

Keiga is a VSO language. Reh (1994) instead uses the name Deiga or Dayga, with a prefix d- instead of the place prefix k-.[2]

  1. ^ Keiga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Reh, Mechthild. 1994. A Grammatical Sketch of Deiga. Afrika und Übersee 77: 197-261.

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