Didinga language

Didinga
Lango
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Didinga Hills
Ethnicity	Didinga (Chukudum, Lowudo)
Native speakers	100,000 (2017)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Southern Eastern? Surmic South Southwest Didinga–Murle Didinga–Longarim Didinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	did
Glottolog	didi1258

The Didinga language (’Di’dinga) is a Surmic language spoken by the Chukudum and Lowudo peoples of the Didinga Hills of South Sudan. It is classified as a member of the southwest branch Surmic languages (Fleming 1983). Its nearest relative is Longarim.

The New Testament in the Didinga language was dedicated in March 2018.[2]

References

1. Didinga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Didinga New Testament. https://find.bible/bibles/DIDWBT/

Relevant literature

• De Jong, N., 2001. The ideophone in Didinga. Typological studies in language 44, pp.121–138.
• Fleming, Harold. 1983. "Surmic etymologies," in Nilotic Studies: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Languages and History of the Nilotic Peoples, Rainer Vossen and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, 524–555. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
• Odden, David. 1983. Aspects of Didinga phonology and morphology. Nilo-Saharan language studies, pp.148–176.

External links

• Didinga basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database