Kadaru (also Kadaro, Kadero, Kaderu, Kodhin, Kodhinniai, Kodoro, Tamya) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 25,000 people in the Jibaal as-Sitta hills, between Dilling and Delami. It is closely related to Ghulfan, with which it forms the Kadaru-Ghulfan subgroup of Hill Nubian.

Kadaru
Kodhin
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Mountains
Ethnicity	Kadaru people
Native speakers	25,000 (2013)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Astaboran Nubian Hill Nubian Kadaru-Ghulfan Kadaru
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kdu
Glottolog	kada1282
ELP	Kadaru
Kadaru is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dialects

Ethnologue reports that there are six dialects spoken by six clan groups living on six separate hills: Kadaru (Kodur), Kururu (Tagle), Kafir (Ka’e), Kurtala (Ngokra), Dabatna (Kaaral) and Kuldaji (Kendal). The Western form used by the Berko people at Habila (southwest of Jebel Sitta, neighbouring the Ghulfan) may be another dialect or a separate language.[1]

References

На других языках

[de] Kadaru (Sprache)

[ru] Кадару (язык)