Back Llingües kadu AST Kadu-Sprachen German Lenguas kadu Spanish Langues kadougliennes French Kadugli-Krongo jezici Croatian Linguas cadu LFN Кадуски јазици Macedonian Lengas kadogli Occitan Языки каду Russian
| Kadu | |
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| Tumtum Kadugli–Krongo | |
| Geographic distribution | Nuba Mountains of Sudan |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | kadu1256 |
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The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family of the Kordofanian geographic grouping, once included in Niger–Congo. However, since Thilo Schadeberg (1981), Kadu is widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. Evidence for a Niger-Congo affiliation is rejected, and a Nilo-Saharan relationship is controversial. A conservative classification would treat the Kadu languages as an independent family.[1]
- ^ Gerrit Dimmendaal, 2008. "Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent", Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5:843ff.