Tegem language

Tegem
Jebel Tekeim
Region Nuba Hills, Sudan
Ethnicity Lafofa
Native speakers
(5,100 all Lalofa cited 1984)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (included in laf)
Glottolog jebe1249[2]

Tegem, also Jebel Tekeim, is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Kordofan, Sudan. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Lafofa, which is poorly attested.

References

  1. Lafofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Jebel Tekeim". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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