The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets by the Daju people across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, including the Kordofan and Darfur regions of Sudan, the Wadai region of Chad, and South Sudan. They belong to the Eastern Sudanic branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan family and divide into two branches, Eastern Daju, comprising Shatt and Liguri, also called Subori, and Western Daju, comprising Daju Mongo, Sila, Nyala, the extinct Beigo, and Njalgulgule, estimated to have diverged from each other roughly 2,000 years ago.
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Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor RegionKordofan and Darfur, Sudan; Wadai, Chad 2 Proto-Language StatusPartially reconstructed (Robin Thelwall, 1981) 2 Compare
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1. Glottolog: Dajuic (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 7
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Daju languages
Wikimedia FoundationLanguages section, paragraph 2
Proto-Daju has been partially reconstructed by Robin Thelwall (1981).
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In Sudan, they are spoken in parts of the regions of Kordofan and Darfur, in Chad they are spoken in Wadai.
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Daju
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Wikidata Q956724, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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