Nyala, also known as Dar Fur, Darfur Daju, Daju Darfur, ''Beke, Dagu, Daju Ferne'' and ''Fininga,'' is an
Eastern Sudanic language
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
N ...
of
Darfur,
Sudan, one of three closely related languages in the area called "Daju" (the other two being the
Daju Mongo language Daju may refer to:
* Daju languages, a group of Nilo-Saharan languages spoken by the Daju people
* Daju people, an ethnic group of Sudan
* Daju (town)
Daju is a township in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan province, Ch ...
and the
Sila language). It is spoken near
Nyala
The lowland nyala or simply nyala (''Tragelaphus angasii'') is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus '' Tragelaphus'', previously placed in genus ''Nyala''. It was first described i ...
, the capital of
South Darfur
South Darfur State ( ar, ولاية جنوب دارفور Wilāyat Ǧanūb Dārfūr; Janob Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the five states that compose the region of Darfur in western Sudan.
Overview
Prior to th ...
province by the
Dar Fur Daju people. There are two divergent dialects: Nyala and Lagowa.
The Lagowa dialect of South Kordofan is spoken in Dar el Kabira, Jebel Miheila, Lagawa, Nyukri, Silecce, Tamanyik, and Warina area villages (''Ethnologue'', 22nd edition).
References
Daju languages
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