| Kadugli | |
| Nativename: | Central Kadu |
| States: | Sudan |
| Region: | South Kordofan |
| Ethnicity: | Kadugli people, Katcha, Damba, Tumma |
| Script: | Latin alphabet |
| Speakers: | 75,000 |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam1: | Nilo-Saharan? |
| Fam2: | Kadugli–Krongo |
| Fam3: | Central |
| Dia1: | Kadugli |
| Dia2: | Katcha |
| Dia3: | Miri |
| Dia4: | Damba |
| Dia5: | Tumma |
| Iso3: | xtc |
| Glotto: | katc1249 |
| Glottorefname: | Katcha-Kadugli-Miri |
Kadugli, also Katcha-Kadugli-Miri or Central Kadu, is a Kadu language or dialect cluster of the Nilo-Saharan language family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan. Stevenson treats the varieties as dialects of one language, and they share a single ISO code, though Schadeberg (1989) treats them as separate languages.
There are five commonly cited varieties. Three of them are rather divergent, on the verge of being distinct languages:
However, they share a single orthography and use the same literacy materials (Ethnologue).
Of the two other commonly cited varieties, Damba is somewhat closer to Kadugli, while Tumma appears to be a (sub)dialect of Katcha.
Villages in which the dialects are spoken according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue:
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | |
| voiced | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| implosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| +ATR | -ATR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Back | Front | Central | Back | ||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | |||||