Karko (also Garko, Kaak, Karme, Kithonirishe; autonym: Kakenbi) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is spoken by around 7,000 people in the Karko hills, 35 km west of Dilling, including Dulman. Ethnologue reports that speakers of Karko are shifting to Sudanese Arabic.[1]

Karko
Kakenbi
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Mountains
Native speakers	7,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Astaboran Nubian Hill Nubian Karko
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kko
Glottolog	kark1256
ELP	Karko (Sudan)
Karko is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Dialects

Karko has three dialects: Karko, Kasha and Shifir. Additionally, varieties spoken by the Ilaki on Abu Junuk to the west (by 1,000 people) and by the Tamang at El Tabaq southwest of Katla (by 800 people) may be dialects or separate languages.[1]

References

На других языках

[de] Karko (Sprache)