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The Shatt language is an Eastern Sudanic language of the Daju family spoken in the Shatt Hills (part of the Nuba Mountains) southwest of Kaduqli in South Kurdufan province in southern Sudan.

Shatt
Canning
Native to	Sudan
Region	Southern Sudan
Ethnicity	Shatt
Native speakers	30,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Daju Eastern Shatt
Dialects	Shatt Dammam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	shj
Glottolog	shat1244
ELP	Shatt
Linguasphere	05-PEA-aa
Shatt is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Villages are Shatt Daman, Shatt Safia, and Shatt Tebeldia (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Names

The designation "Shatt" is an Arabic word meaning "dispersed" and is applied to several distinct groups in the Nuba Mountains. "Caning" is their own name for themselves. Speakers refer to their language as ìkkɨ̀ cánnìñ ('mouth, language').[2]

References

External links

• Ethnologue Language map for Nuba Hills region of Sudan
• Language Map of Sudan Huffman, Steve
• Caning (Shatt) basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

На других языках

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- [en] Shatt language

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[fr] Caning

Le caning, aussi appelé shatt, est une langue dadjo parlée par environ 30 000 locuteurs dans le Kordofan du Sud au Soudan.

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