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Kresh language information


Kresh
Kresh-Ndogo
Native toSouth Sudan
Native speakers
unknown: 16,000 including Dongo (2013)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic?
    • Birri–Kresh
      • Kresh languages
        • Kresh
Language codes
ISO 639-3krs (Kresh–Gbaya–Woro–Dongo)
Glottologgbay1288
ELPGbaya

Kresh, also known ambiguously as Gbaya, is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan.

Naomi Baki, a native Kresh speaker who became a French citizen in 2015, has released an autobiography in 2013 in which she describes her Kresh Gbaya environment in Raga County.[2]

  1. ^ Kresh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Naomi Baki, ''Je suis encore vivante (Paris, Le Cerf, 2013). The title's meaning in English is "Still Alive".

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