Kresh language
Not to be confused with Gbaya languages.
| Kresh | |
|---|---|
| Kresh-Ndogo | |
| Gbaya | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
Native speakers | unknown: 16,000 all Kresh languages apart from Furu (2013)[1] |
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Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
krs (Kresh–Gbaya–Woro–Dongo) |
| Glottolog |
gbay1289[2] |
Kresh, also known as Kresh-Ndogo and Gbaya-Ndogo, is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan and the prestige variety of the Kresh languages.
The Kresh languages are not mutually intelligible. 'Kresh' is what the people are called by their neighbors; they call themselves Gbaya, an ambiguous name in English, shared with many of the unrelated Gbaya languages. Naomi Baki, A native Kresh speaker who became a French citizen in 2015, has released an autobiography in 2013 in which she describes her Kresh Gbaya environment in Raga County.[3]
References
- ↑ Kresh at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gbaya-Ndogo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Naomi Baki, ''Je suis encore vivante (Paris, Le Cerf, 2013). The title's meaning in English is "Still Alive".
| Official language | |
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| Indigenous languages | |
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