Sillok (''Aka'') is a

Nilo-Saharan language The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. T ...

spoken by the

Sillok people Sillok are an ethnic group of Sudan, living in Blue Nile state. They speak the Sillok language (Aka), a Nilo-Saharan language, however most also speak Arabic. They are a subgroup of the Berta people The Berta (Bertha) or Funj are an ethnic grou ...

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

. It is spoken by around 300 people in

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, specifically on Mount Silak (''Jebel Silak''), southwest of the Ingessana hills. According to

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the language is

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, having been heavily

Arabicised Arabization or Arabisation ( ar, تعريب, ') describes both the process of growing Arab influence on non-Arab populations, causing a language shift by the latter's gradual adoption of the Arabic language and incorporation of Arab culture, aft ...

and influenced by the nearby

Berta language Berta proper, a.k.a. ''Gebeto'', is spoken by the Berta (also ''Bertha, Barta, Burta'') in Sudan and Ethiopia. The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language. Berta proper includes th ...

. The Sillok people who speak the language are a remnant group.

References

External links

Aka basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Eastern Jebel languages Languages of Sudan {{ns-lang-stub