Vale languages explained

Vale
Also Known As:Ruto–Vale
Region:CAR, Chad
Familycolor:Nilo-Saharan
Fam2:Central Sudanic
Fam3:Bongo–Bagirmi
Child1:Ruto
Child2:Vale
Glotto:ndug1243
Glottorefname:Nduga–Luto

The Vale languages, or Ruto–Vale, comprise a small number of languages spoken by a few tens of thousands of people in the Central African Republic and perhaps Chad. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

The most populous Vale language is Ruto (Lutos), spoken by twenty thousand people. The other clearly related language is Vale (with its Tana variety perhaps a third).

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