Social:Temein language

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Short description: Eastern Sudanic language spoken in Sudan
Temein
Ronge
Native toSudan
RegionNuba Hills
EthnicityTemein
Native speakers
13,000 (2006)[1]
(6,000 in the ancestral area, 7,000 scattered in other towns)
Language codes
ISO 639-3teq
Glottolognucl1339[2]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Temein is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Temein, also known as Ron(g)e, is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Temein people of the Nuba Hills in Sudan.

Ronge is an approximation of the endonym. Stevenson reports the people are ɔ̀rɔ́ŋɡɔ̀ʔ and the language lɔ́ŋɔ na rɔŋɛ; Dimmendaal has ɔ́ràntɛ̀t for a person, kààkɪ́nɪ́ ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ̀ for the people, and ŋɔ́nɔ́t ná ɔ́rɔ̀ŋɛ for the language.

Temein is spoken in Farik, Kuris, Kwiye, Nekring, Tokoing, Tukur, and Tulu villages (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

References

  1. Temein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Temein". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nucl1339. 

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