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The Didinga language (’Di’dinga) is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Chukudum and Lowudo peoples of the Didinga Hills of South Sudan. It is classified as a member of the southwest branch Surmic languages (Fleming 1983). Its nearest relative is Narim.

Didinga
Lango
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Didinga Hills
Ethnicity	Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo)
Native speakers	60,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Surmic South Southwest Didinga–Narim Didinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	did
Glottolog	didi1258

The New Testament in the Didinga language was dedicated in March 2018.[2]

References

Relevant literature

• De Jong, N., 2001. The ideophone in Didinga. Typological studies in language 44, pp.121-138.
• Fleming, Harold. 1983. "Surmic etymologies," in Nilotic Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples, Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, 524–555. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
• Odden, David. 1983. Aspects of Didinga phonology and morphology. Nilo-Saharan language studies, pp.148-176.

External links

• Didinga basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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