Dinka language

The Dinka language is the speech of the Dinka, a Nilotic people of South Sudan who call themselves Muonjang or Jieng. The Summer Institute of Linguistics lists it in a Nilo-Saharan sub-grouping that also includes Nuer, Luo, Shilluk and Anyuak, and its vocabulary shows considerable borrowing among these related languages, with a special relationship between Dinka and many languages of the Upper Nile. The Dinka divide into about twenty-five mutually independent tribal groups, and similarities in language and cultural norms, together with myths of common descent, sustain a collective identity across all of them.