Dagik language

Dagik
Dagik
Dhaduwa
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity	Mesakin
Native speakers	67,000 (2022)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Kordofanian Talodi–Heiban Talodi Ngile–Dengebu Dagik; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Arreme; Adobu; Tosari;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dec
Glottolog	dagi1241

Dagik, or Dengebu, Dagig, Thakik, Buram, Reikha, is a Niger–Congo language in the Talodi family spoken in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Ngile, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.

The most comprehensive grammar is that of Vanderelst (2016).

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