There are 35108,700000 native speakers of Tegali in [[South Kordofan]] state, [[Sudan]].<ref name=e25e27/> Speakers are distributed in the hills between the Rashud-Rashad and Rashad-Umm Ruwaba roads, with a few outlying hills west of Rashad (including Tagoi and Tarjok) and scattered hills south of Rashad.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Voegelin|first1=C.F.|last2=Voegelin|first2=F.M.|date=May 1964|title=Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle One|jstor=30022465|journal=Anthropological Linguistics|volume=6|pages=195–196}}</ref>
===Dialects/varieties distribution===
Among the three dialects, Tegali has about 1688,000 speakers located on the [[Taqali|Tegali]] range. Rashad has about 519,000 speakers in the Rashad hills in the southern part of the Tegali range, also in Rashad town. Tingal (Kajakja) has about 2,100 speakers.<ref name=":0" />