Sungor (''Assangori''or Assangor'') is a language of eastern
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...
and western
Sudan. It is spoken in an area located to the south of
Biltine and to the north of
Adré
Adré (Arabic: أدري) is the main town of the Assoungha department in the Ouaddaï Region of Chad. It is located very close to Chad's eastern border with Sudan, 400m away. The town is served by Adré Airport.
History
The Chadian-Sudanese co ...
in Chad.
[Rilly, Claude. 2010. ''Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique''. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ]
It is a member of the
Taman
Taman may refer to: Places
*Taman Peninsula, a peninsula in southern Russia
**Taman Bay, an inlet of the Strait of Kerch off the peninsula
**Taman, Russia, a rural locality located on the peninsula
**Port of Taman, a seaport on the Peninsula
*T ...
language family. The majority of native speakers are
Muslim and most use
Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic ( ar, لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Baggara Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the first language of 1.6 million people, both town dwellers and nomadic c ...
as a second language. This community occupies precisely the northern part of the city of Adre. The department of Assoungha is relative to this tribe. Its population is estimated at more than 250,000.
''Ethnologue'' lists the Erenga (''ereŋa'') dialect under
Tama. It is spoken to the north and east of Geneina (Jeneina),
Darfur.
References
Guinet, X. 1973. Esquisse d’une phonologie du Sungor. in Boyeldieu, P. (éd.), ''Problèmes de phonologie'', Bibliothèque de la SELAF, 38 :73-100.
Nachtigal, G. 1938. Die Sprache der Sungor in Wadai.
. Lukas ed.''Mitteilungen der Ausland- Hochschule und Universität'', Berlin, 41: 171-246.
External links
Erenga basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Taman languages
Languages of Sudan
Languages of Chad
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