Dagik, also ''Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha'', is a
Niger–Congo language in the
Talodi family spoken in the
Nuba Mountains in
Kordofan,
Sudan
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. It is 80% lexically similar with
Ngile, which is also spoken by the
Mesakin people.
It is spoken in Buram, Kamlela, Reikha, Taballa, and Tosari villages.
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The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).][Vanderelst, John. 2016. A Grammar of Dagik: A Kordofanian Language of Sudan. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, 50.) Cologne: Köppe.]
Phonology
Consonants
* Sounds /p, t̪, t, k/ can have intervocalic allophones as sonorants �, ð, ɾ, ɣ and voiced allophones , d̪, d, ɡwhen after nasals.
* Sounds , h
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only have marginal status.
* /r/ can also be heard as a tap �allophone.
Vowels
* /u/ can also assimilate to a close-mid in different environments.
References
Talodi languages
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