Koalib language

Koalib
Koalib
Rere
Native to	Sudan
Region	Nuba Hills
Ethnicity	Koalib, Turum, Umm Heitan
Native speakers	(44,000 cited 1984)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Talodi–Heiban Heiban Central Heiban Koalib; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kib
Glottolog	koal1240

Koalib (also called Kwalib, Abri, Lgalige, Nirere and Rere) is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan.^[2] The Koalib Nuba, Turum and Umm Heitan ethnic groups speak this language.

Dialects and locations

Koalib dialects and locations (Ethnologue, 22nd edition):

Nginyukwur dialect: Hadra, Nyukwur, and Umm Heitan
Ngirere dialect: Abri area
Ngunduna dialect: Koalib hills area
Nguqwurang dialect: Turum and Umm Berumbita

Writing system

Capital and small at letters in Doulos SIL typeface

It is written using the Latin script,^[2] but includes some unusual letters. It shares a tailed R (Ɽ) with other Sudanese languages, and uses a letter resembling the at sign (@) for transcribing the letter ع in Arabic loanwords. The Unicode Standard includes R WITH TAIL at code points U+027D (lowercase) and U+2C64 (uppercase), but the Unicode Consortium declined to encode the at sign separately as an orthographic letter.^[3]

SIL International maintains a registry of Private Use Area code points in which U+F247 represents LATIN SMALL LETTER AT, and U+F248 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AT.^[4] However, they have marked this PUA representation as deprecated since September 2014, and the current version of their corporate PUA character assignments package recommends using U+24D0 ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A and U+24B6 Ⓐ CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A for that letter instead.^[3]

Publications

The New Testament was published in Koalib in 1967.

Footnotes

^ Koalib at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Ethnologue report Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine for language code: kib, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (January 17, 2019) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. SIL International Archived 2007-12-01 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 59-60. Retrieved on July 20, 2020.
^ Charis SIL Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine font documentation, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.

External links

Rere Koalib basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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[e18-1] Koalib at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[ethkib-2] Ethnologue report Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine for language code: kib, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.

[SILPUA-3] Constable, Peter, and Lorna A. Priest (January 17, 2019) SIL Corporate PUA Assignments 5.2a Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. SIL International Archived 2007-12-01 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 59-60. Retrieved on July 20, 2020.

[Charisdoc-4] Charis SIL Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine font documentation, retrieved on Apr. 12, 2010.

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