Understanding the Dinka Language & Providing Professional Dinka Interpreters and Translators
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The Dinka language or dialect cluster, called Thuɔŋjäŋ in the language itself, is a Nilotic language spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of Sudan. There are four main varieties, Ngok, Rek, Agaar, and Bor, which are distinct enough to require separate literary standards and thus to be considered separate languages. Jaang or Jieng is used as a general term to cover all Dinka languages. The Malual dialect (Aweil) is the prestige dialect.
The closest non-Dinka language is Nuer, the language of the Dinka's traditional rivals. The Luo languages are also closely related.
The Dinka are found mainly along the Nile, specifically the west bank of the White Nile, a major tributary flowing north from Uganda, north and south of the Sudd marsh in southwestern and south central Sudan in three provinces: Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, and Southern Kordofan.
The Dinka language or dialect cluster, called Thuɔŋjäŋ in the language itself, is a Nilotic language spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of Sudan. There are four main varieties, Ngok, Rek, Agaar, and Bor, which are distinct enough to require separate literary standards and thus to be considered separate languages. Jaang or Jieng is used as a general term to cover all Dinka languages. The Malual dialect (Aweil) is the prestige dialect.
The closest non-Dinka language is Nuer, the language of the Dinka's traditional rivals. The Luo languages are also closely related.
The Dinka are found mainly along the Nile, specifically the west bank of the White Nile, a major tributary flowing north from Uganda, north and south of the Sudd marsh in southwestern and south central Sudan in three provinces: Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, and Southern Kordofan.
Phonology
Dinka has a rich vowel system, with at least thirteen phonemically contrastive vowels. The underdots (‹ ̤›) indicate "breathy" vowels, represented in Dinka orthography by diereses.
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