Laarim | |
Also Known As: | Narim |
Nativename: | Laarim |
States: | South Sudan |
Region: | Laarim Hills |
Ethnicity: | Laarim |
Speakers: | 3,600 |
Date: | 1984 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic? |
Fam3: | Southern Eastern |
Fam4: | Surmic |
Fam5: | South |
Fam6: | Southwest |
Fam7: | Didinga–Murle |
Fam8: | Didinga–Longarim |
Iso3: | loh |
Glotto: | nari1240 |
Glottorefname: | Narim |
Laarim (Larim, Longarim) or Narim is a Surmic language spoken by the Laarim people of the Laarim Hills of South Sudan.
According to Ethnologue, Laarim is spoken in 10 villages of northern Budi County, Eastern Equatoria State. Stirtz (2011)[1] reports that there are as many as 22,000 speakers, living mainly in 14 villages west of Chukudum town.