Sokoro is an
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...
language spoken in central
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
. Dialects are Bedanga and Sokoro.
[ Speakers make up the majority of the population of Gogmi Canton in ]Melfi, Chad
Melfi () is a town in the Guéra Region of southern-central Chad.
The Tele-Nugar Iron Mines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located approximately 155 km south of Melfi.[Oxfam
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and Office National de Développement Rural (ONDR). 2016.
Atlas de la vulnérabilité dans le Guera. Première partie: synthèse regional
'. 2nd edition (updated from 2013 edition). PASISAT (Projet d’Appui à l’Amélioration du Système d’Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire au Tchad).
Notes
References
*Benton, P. A. 1912. Notes on Some Languages of the Western Sudan. London: Oxford University Press
eprinted under the title The Languages and Peoples of Bornu with an introduction by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. London: Frank Cass (1968)
*Chesley, William, and David Faris. 1994. Une enquête sociolinguistique parmi les Sokoro du Guera. N’Djaména: SIL. Manuscript.
*Fédry, Jacques. 1971d. Quelques informations sur les langues du groupe ‘sokoro-mubi’. ''Chadic Newsletter'' 3.
*Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2005. Notes sur le système verbal du sokoro (République du Tchad). ''Afrika und Übersee'' 88:175–186.
*Rendinger, Général de. 1949. Contribution à l’étude des langues nègres du Centre-africain. ''Journal de la Société des Africanistes.'' 19(2). 143–194. Online: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0037-9166_1949_num_19_2_2599.
East Chadic languages
Languages of Chad
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