Jelkung is a possible
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
language spoken in south central
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 Republic ...
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[Blench, 2006]
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
(ms)
''Ethnologue'' 18 lists Jelkung as a synonym of
Saba, in a different branch of East Chadic.
Notes
East Chadic languages
Languages of Chad
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