Daju languages

The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets by the Daju people across a wide area of Sudan and Chad, in parts of the regions of Kordofan, Darfur, and Wadai. They belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan.

They are sub-classified as follows, following Stevenson 1956:

• Eastern Daju:
• Shatt in the Shatt Hills southwest of Kadugli. (The name "Shatt" is also applied to other unrelated languages of the area.)
• Liguri in the Nuba Hills, Sudan
• Western Daju:
• Daju Mongo in Dar Daju, Chad
• Sila in Dar Sila, Chad
• Nyala around Nyala in Darfur, Sudan
• Beigo (extinct) in southern Darfur
• Njalgulgule in southern Sudan on the Sopo River

Proto-Daju has been partially reconstructed by Robin Thelwall (1981). In his...
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