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Dual marking and kinship terms in Afitti
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~4,000

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Speaker Number Trends

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"Most of the Afitti people are bilingual and Arabic is often found as their first rather than their second language"

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

North Kordofan, Sudan

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Location description

Near the town of ar-Rahad. "It is spoken to the east of a solitary rock formation, known as Jebel el-Dair."

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Near the town of ar-Rahad. "It is spoken to the east of a solitary rock formation, known as Jebel el-Dair."

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Other languages used

Sudanese Arabic

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All formal and regional communication

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"Most of the Afitti people are bilingual and Arabic is often found as their first rather than their second language. The regional language, known as colloquial Sudanese Arabic, is used for all formal and regional communication, which partly explains this development [...] The relatively small number of speakers, as well as the war in Sudan have left this language with little to no attention from current linguists with the notable exception of Roland C. Stevenson (Stevenson, Rottland & Jakobi 1992; Bender 2000) who collected materials in 1986–88."

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,512

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Year of info

2010

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Coordinates

12.4419,30.7534

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4,510

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Sudan;

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Year of info

1991

Location and Context

Countries

Sudan

Coordinates

12.13869,30.181732

Location description

"...Dinik, which is spoken some 150 kms northeast of Dilling in the northern and eastern part, i.e., the Sidra area of Jebel Dair.

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"...Dinik, which is spoken some 150 kms northeast of Dilling in the northern and eastern part, i.e., the Sidra area of Jebel Dair.

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Dair

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