Dinka

E175971

Dinka is a Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Dinka people of South Sudan.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Dinka canonical 16
Borghol Dinka 2
Malual Dinka 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilotic language
Southern Luo language
language
closelyRelatedTo Atuot language
Nuer language
Shilluk language
country South Sudan
ethnologueEntry Dinka
hasDialects Agar Dinka
Borghol Dinka
linked to: Dinka

Northeastern Dinka
linked to: Dinka language

Padang Dinka
Rek Dinka
South Central Dinka
linked to: Dinka

Southwestern Dinka
linked to: Dinka people

Twic Dinka
hasGlottocode dink1262
hasISO639-1Code none
hasISO639-2Code din
hasISO639-3Code din
hasMorphologicalType fusional
tonal morphology
hasNativeName Thuɔŋjäŋ
hasPhonologicalFeature advanced tongue root vowel harmony
contrastive vowel length
tonal distinctions
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
languageBranch Nilotic languages
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
languageGroup Western Nilotic languages
languageSubfamily Eastern Sudanic languages
majorEthnicGroup Dinka people
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Christianity
traditional African religions
region Bahr el Ghazal
Greater Upper Nile
Jonglei State
Lakes State
spokenBy Dinka people
spokenIn South Sudan
status majority language in South Sudan
usedAs lingua franca in parts of South Sudan
usedIn education in South Sudan
local media in South Sudan
usesDiacriticsFor tone
vowel quality
writingSystemType alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dinka language hasDialect Rek Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka language hasDialect Borghol Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka language hasDialect Malual Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka language hasDialect Twic Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka language hasDialect South Central Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka language hasDialect Southwestern Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dina hasDiminutiveForm Dinka
Dinka people ethnonym Dinka
John Garang ethnicity Dinka
subject linked to: Dinka people
Salva Kiir Mayardit ethnicity Dinka
subject linked to: Dinka people
Dinka hasDialects Borghol Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka hasDialects South Central Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Dinka ethnologueEntry Dinka
Nuer neighboringGroup Dinka
Shilluk neighboringGroup Dinka
Francis Deng ethnicGroup Dinka
Padang Dinka closelyRelatedTo Malual Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Thuɔŋjäŋ hasDialects Ngök Dinka
linked to: Dinka
Jonglei ethnicGroup Dinka