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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| Native to | Sudan |
| Region | Nuba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Tagale |
Native speakers | (44,000 including Tingal cited 1982–1984)[1][2] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ras |
| Glottolog | tega1236 |
| 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)
Further reading
- 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.