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Avokaya (also spelled Abukeia, Avukaya, or, in Arabic script, ابوكية) is a Central Sudanic language spoken in southern South Sudan and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Avokaya
Native toSouth Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region(SS) West Equatoria
(DRC) Haut-Uele
EthnicityAvukaya
Native speakers
(40,000 in South Sudan (2002)
25,000 in DRC cited 1989)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic
    • East
      • Moru–Madi
        • Central
          • Avokaya
Language codes
ISO 639-3avu
Glottologavok1242

Demographics


Avokaya speakers occupy a contiguous area along both sides of the South Sudan-DRC international boundary, with Maridi in South Sudan and Faradje in Congo as the main centres of the language. In 2002, the number of Avokaya speakers in South Sudan was estimated to be 40,000, replacing the inaccurate 1982 estimate of 15,000. However, the 1989 estimate of 25,000 speakers in the Congo still stands.

A 2013 survey reported that ethnic Avukaya reside in the following bomas of South Sudan.[2]


Dialects


Avokaya's two main dialects are Ajugu, which is spoken in the border area of the two countries south of Maridi, and Ojila, which is spoken in the region between the Naam (Era) and Olo rivers, and slightly east of there. These two dialects are spoken in both countries, with the smaller dialects of Northern Ogambi and Avokaya Pur spoken only in the Faradje region, Congo. Avokaya is closest to Logo, especially in the Northern Ogambi dialect (whereas the Ogambi dialect is a dialect of Logo rather than Avokaya. A high degree of code switching exists among Avokaya and Logo speakers in the Faradje region.


Multilingualism


In Maridi, there is much bilingualism and intermarriage with speakers of Baka (a West Central Sudanic language) and Mündü (an Ubangian language). Juba, Sudanese Arabic and English are used for wider communication by speakers in Sudan, while, in the Congo, speakers tend to use Swahili, Lingala and French.


References


  1. Avokaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Village Assessment Survey". International Organization for Migration South Sudan. 2013.

На других языках


- [en] Avokaya language

[fr] Avokaya

L’avokaya est une langue nilo-saharienne de la branche des langues soudaniques centrales parlée dans le Soudan du Sud, ainsi que dans le Faradje, en République démocratique du Congo.



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