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 | |
---|---|
Native to | Sudan |
Region | Nuba Hills |
Ethnicity | Tagale |
Native speakers | (44,000 including Tingal cited 1982–1984)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
Dialects |
|
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. The erstwhile language Tingal is a dialect of Tegali.
General information
The Tegali language is spoken on two mountain ranges to the north and north-west of the Rashad village. It is also spoken in the Kordofan Province, specifically in the Nuba Hills region.
References
- ^ Tegali language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Tingal at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2005. Kordofanian Languages. n.p.: 2005. Gale Virtual Reference Library
Blench, Roger. n.d. "Should Kordofanian be split up?." PDF available online.
"Bibliography of Current Literature Dealing with African Languages and Cultures Africa." Journal of the International African Institute. no. 2 (1950): 167-174.
Greenberg, Joseph H. "Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VII. Smaller Families; Index of Languages." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. no. 4 (1950): 388-398.
Grimes, B. 2003. Kordofanian Languages. n.p.: Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference
Hall, Ed and Marian Hall 2004. Kadugli-Krongo. Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages, No. 9. Khartoum.
Hartell, Rhonda L., and John. Bendor-Samuel. 1989. "The Niger-Congo languages." HathiTrust
Horowitz, Michael M. "A Reconsideration of the 'Eastern Sudan'." Cahiers d'Études Africaines. no. 27 (1967): 381-398.
Jāmiʻat al-Kharṭūm. Maʻhad al-Dirāsāt al-Afrīqīyah, wa-al-Āsiyawīyah. 1978. "Language survey of the Sudan."
MacDiarmid, P.A. and D.N. MacDiarmid. 1931. The languages of the Nuba Mountains. Sudan Notes and Records 14:149-162
Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium Leiden, Netherlands), M. Lionel Bender, and Thilo C. Schadeberg. 1981. "Nilo-Saharan."
O’fahey, R. S. 2006. Kordofān. n.p.: 2006. Gale Virtual Reference Library
Osman , Kamal. "British Policy and the Accentuation of Inter-Ethnic Divisions: The Case of the Nuba Mountains Region of Sudan." Salih African Affairs. no. 356 (1990): 417-436.
Paideuma, M.C. Jedrej. Ethnohistorical Problems in the Eastern Sudan Region of Africa . no. 52 (2006): 205-225.
Quint, Nicolas, [1970-]. 2009. "The phonology of Koalib: a Kordofanian language of the Nuba Mountains [Sudan] = Tookwroo tètè kàntècá kètè kwoaalîp." In Phonologie de la langue koalibe, n.p.: 2009. Africa-Wide Information
Sanderson, G.N. "The Modern Sudan, 1820-1956: The Present Position of Historical Studies." The Journal of African History. no. 3 (1963): 435-461.
Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1989. "Kordofanian." In The Niger-Congo Languages.
Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1979. "A description of the Orig language (Southern Kordofan) Based on the Notes of Fr. Carlo Muratori."
Stevenson, Roland C. 1962-64. Linguistic research in the Nuba mountains. Sudan Notes and Records, 43:118-130; 45:79-102.
Tucker, Archibald Norman, and Margaret Arminel Bryan. 1966. Linguistic analysis: the non-Bantu languages of North-Eastern Africa. Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford UP.
Tucker, A. N., and M. A. Bryan. 1956. "The non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa." HathiTrust
Voegelin, C.F., and F.M. Voegelin. "Languages of the World: African Fascicle One." Anthropological Linguistics. no. 5 (1964): 1-339.
External links
- [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/182/guide Tegali at the Endangered Languages Project