Sudan is a multilingual country dominated by the Sudanese dialect of the Arabic language. According to the 2005 Constitution of the Sudan, the official languages are Arabic literary and English .
Description
About 70 languages are native to Sudanese citizens.
Sudanese Arabic is the most widely spoken language in the country. This is one of the varieties of the Arabic language, widespread in the north of Sudan. It has a lot of borrowed words from local languages (el-rotan). This led to varieties of Arabic that are unique in Sudan, reflecting the way the country was influenced by African and Arab cultures. Some Sudan tribes still have similar accents and those in Saudi Arabia. Other important languages include Bedja (Bedawi) on the Red Sea with a possible 2,000,000 speakers; trucks in the west (Dafur) with 1,000,000 carriers; and various Nubian languages along the Nile in the north with 500,000 native speakers or so. The most linguistically diverse region in the country - the Nuba Mountains in Kordofan, the population of several language families, with Darfur and Ethiopian-border regions - will be the second.
Beja is the only language of the Cushite family in Sudan. The Arabic language belongs to the Semitic family , the Nigerian-Congolese family is represented by many Kordofan languages , and the Indo-European languages are represented by Domarians and English. Historically, the ancient Nubian language , Greek , Coptic were the languages of Christian Nubia , and the Meroite language in the kingdom of Kush , which conquered Egypt.
Sudan also has several regional sign languages that lack mutual understanding . But in 2009, a proposal was developed for a single Sudanese sign language, but was not widely known.
Most commonly used languages:
- Arabic throughout Sudan, along with tribal languages.
- Sudanese Arabic.
- Hajj, hejaz dialects of the Arabic language (mainly in the middle of the north and middle of the east).
- Chadian Arabic in the western region (many common in Baggara and other Arab-African tribes).
- Nubian languages in the far north (many are spoken by the Nubians Mahas, Dongola and Halfa).
- Dinka in South Sudan.
- Beja is known as Bedavit in the extreme east near the Red Sea (many Bedzha say in Hadandava, Ababda, Bisharin).
- Fours in the far west (many trucks say).
- Kordofan languages consist of many languages: Kadu languages , Katla languages, Mande languages , Rashad languages, Lafoth languages and Talodi-Heyban languages.
- Languages of the Nubian mountains in the southern region (different ethnic groups speak different languages).
- Languages Temayn.
- Domari .
- Different Nigerian-Congolese languages and Chadian languages (spoken by many West African tribes, similar to the Fallat, also known as Fulbe or Hausa .
- Other tribal languages throughout Sudan with an English-speaking population.
See also
- Languages of South Sudan
Links
- Languages of Sudan on Ethnlogue
- Joshua Project (all peoples, languages, etc.)