Kujarge

Kujarge is an unclassified language spoken by the Kujarke people in a handful of villages near Jebel Mirra in eastern Chad, with related settlements along the lower Wadi Salih and Wadi Azum in Darfur, Sudan. It is documented almost entirely by a roughly 200-word vocabulary list gathered in 1981 by Paul Doornbos from two informants who disagreed on many of the elicited forms, leaving the record thin and its accuracy uncertain. Scholars have proposed links to the Chadic or Cushitic families, or a position transitional between the two, but no classification has been established and it is sometimes treated as an isolate. An estimate from 1983 put speakers at about 1,000, though displacement from the Darfur conflict and the group's lack of recognition by aid organizations make its current status, and possibly its survival, unclear.