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Koalib (also called Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere and Rere) is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan.[2] The Koalib Nuba, Turum and Umm Heitan ethnic groups speak this language.

Koalib
Rere
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity	Koalib, Turum, Umm Heitan
Native speakers	(44,000 cited 1984)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Heiban Central Heiban Koalib
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kib
Glottolog	koal1240

Dialects and locations

Koalib dialects and locations (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):

• Nginyukwur dialect: Hadra, Nyukwur, and Umm Heitan
• Ngirere dialect: Abri area
• Ngunduna dialect: Koalib hills area
• Nguqwurang dialect: Turum and Umm Berumbita

Writing system

It is written using the Latin script,[2] but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign (@) for transcribing the letter ع in Arabic loanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D (lowercase) and U+2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode Consortium declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter.[3]

SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.[4] However, they have marked this PUA representation as deprecated since September 2014, and the current version of their corporate PUA character assignments package recommends using U+24D0 ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A and U+24B6 Ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A for that letter instead.[3]

Publications

The New Testament was published in Koalib in 1967.

Footnotes

External links

• Rere Koalib basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

На других языках

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[de] Koalib (Sprache)

Koalib (auch genannt Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere und Rere) ist eine Niger-Kongo-Sprache der Heiban-Sprachgruppe, die im Sudan gesprochen wird.[1]

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- [en] Koalib language

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[fr] Koalib

Koalib (également appelé Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere et Rere, qui est l'un des principaux dialectes[1]) est une langue de la famille nigéro-congolaise de la famille Heiban parlée dans les monts Nouba au sud du Soudan[2]. Les groupes ethniques Koalib Nuba, Turum et Umm Heitan parlent cette langue.

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