Ngile | |
Nativename: | Daloka |
States: | Sudan |
Region: | South Kordofan |
Ethnicity: | Mesakin |
Date: | 2024 |
Ref: | e27 |
Script: | Latin (limited use) |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Kordofanian |
Fam3: | Talodi–Heiban |
Fam4: | Talodi |
Fam5: | Ngile–Dengebu |
Map2: | Lang Status 40-SE.svg |
Iso3: | jle |
Glotto: | ngil1242 |
Glottorefname: | Ngile |
Ngile, also known as Daloka, Taloka, Darra, Masakin, Mesakin, is a Niger–Congo unwritten language in the Talodi family spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is 80% lexically similar with Dengebu, which is also spoken by the Mesakin people.
Dialects are (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):