ISO 639-3 · dindin
Nilo-Saharan family · macrolanguage
Dinka
Thuɔŋjäŋ
Dinka is a macrolanguage of the Dinka–Nuer branch (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in South Sudan. Wikidata counts about 1.4 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
din- Glottocode
dink1262- Family
- Nilo-Saharan
- Centre point
- 7.00, 30.00
- Wikipedia
- 41 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
—UNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Dinka · Thuɔŋjäŋ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Dinka language |
| All speakers | 1,365,900 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
Wikidata has no EGIDS or UNESCO rating for Dinka yet.
family tree
From Nilo-Saharan to Dinka
The branches above Dinka, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in South Sudan
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafemsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mapdSudanese Arabicunclassified · 31.9 m3 · Wider CommunicationswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mshuChadian Arabicunclassified · 2.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationshkShillukNilo-Saharan · 2 m5 · DevelopingachAcholiNilo-Saharan · 1.2 m5 · DevelopingpgaJuba ArabicArabic-based pidgin and creole languages · 820,0003 · Wider CommunicationbfaBariNilo-Saharan · 480,0003 · Wider Communication