Tegali (also spelled Tagale, Tegele, Tekele, Togole) is a Niger–Congo language in the Rashad family spoken in Kordofan, Sudan, in and around the town of Rashad. It is closely related to Tagoi.
Tegali | |
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Region | Nuba Hills, Sudan |
Native speakers | 36,000 (1984) |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ras |
ELP | Tegali |
There are two varieties, Rashad or Gom (Kom, Ngakom, Kome) and Tegali proper. Ethnologue states that they are nearly identical, and they were considered a single language in Williamson & Blench 2000, but Blench ms treats them as separate languages.